The American Joke
The moon is a nudist.
Up there nightly blameless and innocent, showing us everything.
The moon is a stripper giving us the slow reveal forever
w/ a miniature brain &
nerves
w/ its internal organs fully preserved
The moon is 520,000,000 million years old or just a few thousand.
An ass in the sky flying high. Tempting us. Showing us. Providing counterpoint.
Some say the moon is a naturalist.
Others claim it’s an alien surveillance unit unnaturally placed to provide cosmic balance.
Some say the moon makes the goldilocks zone.
Public nightmares down here on our planet the whole thing a plot by the government and certain celebrities but the trees keep smiling, saying nothing, seeing everything eternal. Like them, the moon refrains from comment.
Is the moon even watching? The moon is a riddle. The moon is a warning. The moon is a lopsided creature without any moods
showing us her bare belly button and ass w/ the
leering old man graffito
crudely scrawled.
Zack Kopp is co-creator of the monthly Coffeehouse for Social Medicine at Mutiny Information Café in Denver. All his books are available at Amazon. Find more of his writing (fact and fiction) at www.campelasticity.com
