The Centrifugal Force Ride
Cadnum, Michael
Michael Cadnum The Centrifugal Force Ride So much of a year is given to us, ready-made Morning, and then the heat Sometimes a whole day goes by and it's hard to notice Unless it breaks,...
...Even joy arrves in pieces, ready to be assembled, flatbed trucks and thin, unshaven men who tug tarps and scatter cables across grass...
...And when we line up, flattening the dark grass, tickets in hand, we are doing what we are supposed to do, in love with the circle of light...
...It wheels people up into the air and around so fast they can't move They laugh as the sky opens and closes its mouth...
...All the way home we hear the screams...
...We spread our arms and we don't ML Some people say we are in love with death...
...Michael Cadnum The Centrifugal Force Ride So much of a year is given to us, ready-made Morning, and then the heat Sometimes a whole day goes by and it's hard to notice Unless it breaks, unless the weather opens, a week is flat, the neighbor across the street killing weeds with a long thin pipe that spurts fibre...
...But we are in love with life the way we find ft...
...It's a cage that revolves, tilting, spinning people the way the spin cycle spins clothes...
Vol. 123 • June 1996 • No. 12
