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Parallel Worlds Theory

1

When a new bar called

The Air-Conditioned Lounge

opens and its sign

is in old-time cursive

this is ironic because

the building

is a concrete box

and the sign

looks like a gift card,

no,

this is ironic

because its claim

is true

but does nothing

to distinguish it.

Either this sign

is a reversal

of the many

novel yet dubious

claims we endure

or it expresses

guarded nostalgia

for a time

when it was that easy

to be cool.

2

Those branches

are good

because they remind me

of others.

The others

are the same

but small