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      October 15, 2017Everything That’s OldDion O'Reilly

      Jets are the new motor homes
      chemtrails are the new clouds
      the unknown dead on an island
      are the calm before a storm
      robots are the new immigrants
      Roundup is the new hoe
      Colbert is the new Cronkite
      smoke is the new sky
      drought is the new summer
      cars are heart disease
      dust is lawn
      downtown is the new homeless
      Amazon is the new mall
      retired is the new nomad
      needles are the new rusty nail
      plastic is the new lead
      viral is the new headline
      posting is the new protest
      the horizon of the western ocean
      is the new ghost of Godzilla
      the Cold War is the new Cold War
      fire heading down a suburban street
      is wind
      anxiety is the new air
      the Earth’s crust is the weak eggshell
      of a songbird.

      from Poets Respond

      Dion O'Reilly

      “There has been much in the news to cause anxiety this week: Trump’s assertion that his meeting with generals was the calm before a storm, the fires raging just a few hundred miles away from me in Sonoma and Mendocino County. Every alarming piece of news is part of a broader picture of a sea change– the eerie feeling we are being forced into a new and deadly normal.”