Texit
by Joshua Sturgill
Feast of St Plato the Great Martyr of Ancyra
Anno Domini 2020, November 18
A story filmed
in California (aliens
devouring New York
again) tours
the straightedge states
and swells
the cinemas in Texas.
And for an hour, Texans
are amused, transported
to that strange, fantastic
Other America — taken in
by images sent back
from that country
where their soy beans
and their methane go.
But often now
for Texans, California
is just a major
motion picture, New York
little different than
Disney World — places
nice to visit, sure,
but a body
could never really live there.
*Joshua Sturgill's first collection of poetry, As Far As I Can Tell, was published by Darkly Bright Press and is available for purchase here.
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