POETS’ CORNER: FEELA PREVIEWS THE NEW YEAR

30 Dec POETS’ CORNER: FEELA PREVIEWS THE NEW YEAR

Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is, like Wordwoman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. And like Rosemerry, is brilliant and very very quirky. Witness his riff on 2013,  a tip of the hat to Voltaire and a variation on the theme of Don Quixote, with David as the man on the donkey.

David Feela’s latest book, “How Delicate These Arches: Footnotes from the Four Corners,” a collection of essays, is available at Between the Covers Bookstore.

The Year in Preview

Next year will be different:
suicide bombers will be kinder,
senseless shooters more considerate,
the banks less greedy.

Congress will get to work
legislating America’s confidence
and hangovers from drunken holidays
will be covered by Medicare.

European debt will melt like polar ice
and dead movie stars will come back to life,
the beginning of a new era in self delusion.
Earthquakes, tornadoes, and oil spills

will manifest themselves
for study instead of destruction.
The homeless will begin to relish
the freedom of not owning a home.

Wildlife will adapt to the virtues
of domesticity, nuclear power plants
will generate the scent of fresh snow,
and a forest of electronic books

will be harvested by hackers,
to be left on the virtual doorsteps
of overcrowded online schools.
An abducted child will be found,

alive — the police jailing a network
of journalists who’d suggested
things would not turn out
as well as they did.

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM TELLURIDE INSIDE… AND OUT!