Gary Edward Geraci

Zy-Ghosts

floating condoms, the defining

moment of the wastewater plant

field trip, the hands of the plant

manager, our tour guide, pointing

out the human population’s gift.

 

the city of Austin, late nineties,

our donor base at the time, had

been reduced to this great pool,

of top floating memorabilia.

 

tokens regularly assaulting

the system clarifiers, it

was explained, a plug of condom

infused wastewater alternating

 

with currents of beer content on

game days or from certain southern

sections of the city, he surmised,

one or the other, I can’t be

 

to sure which one for certain, but

truly, the take away for most

of us, had to have been the sheer

number of air infused balloons;

 

floating prophylactics swirling

and bobbing and being collected,

segregated, culled out, and shed;

fit not even for the Dillo dirt.

 

Gary Edward Geraci