Jared Pearce
Gold Medals
When the sun rises, everyone
will be there, cheering it
to the heavens, and all those
who said the dawn would die,
well, they’ll be shamed by them
who knew how cool the sun was
even before it was cool, yet
they’ll retain their administrative
roles, their political stations,
and the hipsters will hold
their sneer and web their aspersions,
foisting their morals on whomever
they dislike—room for everybody
under this cerulean canopy.
Jared Pearce is the author of The Annotated Murder of One (Aubade Publishing, 2018). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Coachella Review, Xavier Review, Breadcrumbs, BlazeVOX, and Panoplyzine, among other journals. Online at jaredpearcepoetry.weebly.com.
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