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CONSENSUS REALITY -for Ian Pope

still-living stragglers 
from past generations
insisting
that their reality’s not dead

the last few
living corporatists 
grasping at
all the things they treasured: 
racism, the Cold War,
The Eagles 

but the good news is 
we don’t need a consensus for reality
we just need young people
to do what they do 
and then: KAPOW!
a new reality 

so let these 20th century stragglers 
wave their raggedy flags,
talk about Woodstock, etc 

let them stamp their feet
as the sun sets 

on their version

of how to conduct a life