Antioch

The things you left behind
were quite a mixed bag
of the sweet and cynical.
Ten thousand years of human civilization
and what are the chances we would run out of new ideas
in nineteen seventy two?
Ann Arbor sounds lovely,
but is it really?
I feel like I've lost
been deprived of
my capacity to even know
what I enjoy,
and in such an event,
I am glad to know you're here,
underground or wherever we've been
driven by our own
haunting
pasts or whatever
excuses
and the rain is clearing up
and I wish it would stay.