breaking: weekend emancipated
from weekday’s chain-gang
of badprint “Inflation Rises”
we read as “Inflation Rises—
Buy Ice Cream!”
traffic-jam surfer glides
on radio waves, singing “All Clear!”
above headline-rapture.
kids skate on rainbow-broken sidewalks,
transforming potholes into skip-beats.
this bulletin board of sky and breeze
broadcasts only good things: playground treaties,
hammock peaceniks, and umbrella duets in sunshowers.
—press “pause” on the panic channel. weekend’s in session.
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