"Visualize World Peace" on a rusted VW van bumperstuck in 1968 and memory attacks of Blind Faith psychedelving into meditation singing I can't find my way home its guitar waking a familiar aching for how it was gonna be all so beautiful and everyone in love
And now it's just a stroll to the combination deli-gas-station to buy a paper and comb the classifieds a decade older and somebody said it'd be wiser man but haven't overcome the gloat and that ain't the way it feels cuz it's awake again and sad to see the way things be while a microbus just sits and rusts
And I shove back down a feeling of shining future dismantled of dandelion pot purple berry wine peacerock and lovesign and it's all bumperstuck now and drowned
Hugh Findlay’s writing and photography have been published worldwide. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2020 for poetry, and the Best Microfiction Anthology 2024, he is in the third trimester of life and hopes y’all like his stuff.
