SurVision Magazine
An
international online magazine that
publishes Surrealist poetry
in English.
Issue Twelve
R.S. MENGERT
The Endless Summer at the End of Civilization
trash bags everywhere black plastic
trash bags always full
someone with enough will always take
whatever you have big shiny pickup
trucks with spotless cargo beds
and no passengers men who drive
such trucks must have lost everything
so they take the sun
has capitulated to the heat
and lost its power lost its light
it only burns now everything
gets taken big shiny trucks of red and black
that never see a speck of dirt
win every time
R.S. Mengert lives in Tempe, Arizona. He completed an MFA in poetry at Syracuse University. His work appears in Zymbol, Maintenant, Poetry is Dead, Poor Yorick, Exacting Clam, Bureau of Complaint, Gargoyle, The California Quarterly, Pensive, SurVision, ABZ, Four Chambers, The Café Review, Fjords, San Pedro River Review, and Enizagam.
