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Dystopia<br/><br/>I know when I walk by a book titled<br/>Mood Disorders but it’s really Komodo<br/>Dragons that things are slipping<br/><br/>downhill again the icy draw receiving<br/>pieces of sweater, boot scrapings<br/>where I try to anchor along the slope<br/><br/>slide back (the irony of moving back<br/>when moving forward) but that’s<br/>how it is and I am sleepless again<br/><br/>telling numbers on the phone/clock<br/>like a child learning by rote the digits<br/>that mark the course of a day<br/><br/>but it’s night that foils all the white<br/>pills shaped into proscribed remedies<br/>but wait, surely by now cats<br/><br/>will stop by the window and tell<br/>me it’s time to get up and I will<br/>put out pans of food for them<br/><br/>as they talk to me in their own<br/>way and I will answer them as we<br/>share secrets together.<br/><br/>BIO:<br/>Pat Anthony writes from the rural Midwest, getting inspiration from the rugged furrows of plowed ground and those on the faces of the men and women working the land. She draws from experience and observation, responding to the poetry she finds everywhere.<br/><br/>Her motto: “You do not write poetry. You are a poet. You. Are. Poem.”