'World’s Fair' by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

   

April 17, 1990, while listening to Ray Bradbury

              They were

                 architecture,

            they were cities of the

                     future and

                I was

                   dedicated

                       to building

               them and from

                    the lessons I

                     learned

            I tell

                this old story,

               I’ve told

                   it hundreds of times,

           Never

              tear up the future again,

                   Never listen to fools.

            The love pays back.

          If you love King Kong above

                 all the apes in the world

                         you’ll be hired,

                    just look at me

                                I am an

                             amalgam of loves.

(published in Grand Street 45, 1993)