Bandelier National Monument

climb tall ladder
to ceremonial kiva,
ballet of swallows,
lone squirrel at lunch;
ancestral Puebloans
missed the boat -
1,000 years too early
for tourist dollars.

(neckbone, 2009)


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beep beep!
man answers telephone,
dial tone on other end.
man says, "thank you."

woman wakes up,
says, "who was it?"
mans says, "robot."
woman says, "i love talking to robots;
didn't you ever watch the Jetsons?"

(ji bo, 2009)

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