The Sky Is Always Blue Comments

The last line is witty (that means humor with a purpose behind it) - the very rude blue sky. And in your Poet's Note you cite PERPLEXED AGGRAVATION as the impulse that motivated you. You wrapped your mind around this poem - you expressed succinctly the message and emotion you needed to express. I can think of some parallels to the sky which persists rudely as a lovely blue despite the world's suffering. What's called SURVIVOR'S GUILT is relevant. Or buying yourself a new stereo when people are starving in Africa. Or people who buy drugs for their pleasure which makes the drug lords in Columbia more powerful. Or not helping a friend who's on a down trip because you're too preoccupied with whatever else is happening. Your poem expresses a strong moral focus. We need to do this for each other, because all of us have the tendency to be BLUE SKIES when we should be concerned friends.

Your poem deals with serious issues in the present time which shape the planet's future for good or ill. But in addition to the serious subject, it is a very clever poem with the speaker's insistent awareness of a blue sky that seems so unresponsive to the plight of victims on earth. It's as if that sky symbolized all the people who ignore the world's problems and people's suffering and just serve their own needs. But when the sky speaks another clever moment - if feels fully justified in its impartial POV. Your anger is also justified, but will it matter to the blue things of the world? Sadly, the answer is probably NO.