The Same Relaxing Meaning Poem by Robert Rorabeck

The same relaxing meaning drinking its liquor in
The middle of
The country while the race cars race
And the baseball plays its games—what is left for
There to be sold
But fireworks and
Christmas trees—the same pleasantries the
Indians enjoyed before our arrival—
And the teacher who teaches next to me had no
Parents
But he all placed fourth in the Olympics back in
The 1960s—now the mouth is off
The bottle of the genie—
While you are still serving liquor to your lost
Gentlemen—
There are only so many wishes for so many lotteries—
And the same palaces imagine a night without so
Many stars—
And she drives home to him—
Into the places where she secludes herself—
While the heavens decide if they will cast their
Rain forever atop the heads of the mermaids and
The Cyclops who imagine their love so many times
As to become forever
Nearer and nearer to the sea.