poem
Volume 37, Number 2

Things Stood on Their Head

In the upside-down world
gravity lets you fly
all lies are simply white
and it’s really quite alright

Satan’s been through therapy
and is truly reconstructed:
there is no need for prisons
just foreign states with walls around them

everyone thinks the same
or very quickly does
so there’s no real division
cos we all understand what’s good

in fact there’s only the upside
nothing to get you down
after all, a beaming smile
is just an upturned frown. 


—AJ Dalton