The World of Tomorrow

from The World of Today and the World of Tomorrow by Adam Gnade

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These are my unrealistic expectations. I want to be left alone by pain and I want to be given the heat of life. I want the ones I love to be left unscathed. I want a very small group of people that I love to live forever.

This is a plea for the world of tomorrow. This is a wish and want, an invocation yet again.

Once this is over let us spread ourselves across the country like butter on warm bread as we visit those we love most.

Give us North Park, City Heights, and Golden Hill. Give us Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City.

Give us gray sandy shores in Long Beach where we walk slow at the waterline at dusk and talk of the wreck of these years, of how much we’ve changed and remained the same.

Coal-trains, West Virginia with the green crag of woods. Truckstop New Mexico and browsing the snack aisle together, tired from the drive. Wyoming, the piney expanse in the fog. Church-bells in the morning, Sioux City, and you’re hungover and you’ve just cut off all your hair in a park, and your mind is drifting, and it’s alright.

The world of tomorrow is a thing to grab hold of. It’s a rising sound. It’s firmer ground on which to stand. The world of tomorrow, I’m waiting for you so don’t let me down. I mean it, we’re counting on you, good friend.

I want to be left alone by pain and I want to be given the heat of life, and I will lie in the grass with you in Omaha, and we will watch the clouds move above us like buses and train cars and submarines.

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from The World of Today and the World of Tomorrow, released December 3, 2021

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A new record label releasing audio recordings of writers' work. Poems backed by noise. Novels as audio books. Stories on cassettes. Curated by Adam Gnade. Currently accepting submissions.