The sounds of summer leave
your lungs mid-autumn.
Gulls rebuild the sky.
It's more or less a spectacle.
With a gauze of dark circles
under your eyes, you watch
the whole world take a rain check.
The clouds overlap until nightfall
and you twiddle your thumbs
at everyone's mid-life crisis.
The moon blinks inside
out and no one notices.
You do all the talking.
The city lights acting as your voice.



About this poem
"'You Are in Nearly Every Future' is a long poem that has been used in a number of collaborative multimedia projects. The poem itself is drunk on landscape and the noise of time, and how they never finish."
-Noah Falck

About Noah Falck
Noah Falck is the author of "Snowmen Losing Weight" (BatCat Press, 2012). He lives in Buffalo, N.Y., where he curates the Silo City Reading Series and works as the education director at the Just Buffalo Literary Center.

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(c) 2015 Noah Falck. Originally published by the Academy of American Poets, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate