The Rose and the Secret Balloon by Bob MacKenzie The red balloon rose smiling through blue confetti the man neared the forked path his walking stick swinging toward the garden. The purple world hung on each swing the stick made closer to the flowers and the red the secret balloon. Wreak a new horror retch like an earthworm earth as he penetrates your bowels and eats the rose. The stick enters the open rose the burst balloon blooms and dies as an afterthought the man walks on. The maroon world hangs on each crimson swing of the stick of the flowers and the red the secret balloon. published: Special Song, Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 1973 |