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January, 2009
Poetry
man
Poetry man Is more than
Just the title of a cheesy
70’s
Record I saw today while
browsing the aisles of
the Half Price
Books and Records store
Poetry man came
before
Cro-Magnon man
Australopithecus,
& the
Neanderthals
& poetry man
will continue
to burn inside
the quiet
chaos
of his shattered
mind long after
the extinction of
Homo-sapiens
except for the occasional
barking of his
neighbor’s
three lonesome
Rottweiler’s
A polluted literary
river
one poem itself
will never cause
people to weep,
to scream,
to throw their
underwear at the poet
in an rock- star fueled
frenzy
There's too
many poets &
writers
floating on
dreamy
driftwood
in a polluted
literary river
each day as
they
gently fold one
meager
thought
into yet
another
useless
observation
a dash of
Nabakov-
fueled scribbles &
just a pinch of
a lovers
conversation
barely overheard in
a crowded chain Italian
restaurant
(we are all like
That moth
Pinned alive on
Page one hundred
And ten)
decoy
The owl decoy
Protecting the
garbage outside
The Burger King
Drive-thru
fooled us both
then you were
Reminding me
About our
first apartment
how the
Raccoons
would dig through the trash
remembering
how their eyes would glow
in the glare
of the headlights
of our
car
giving us blank
stares
a cold black night
leaving the parking
lot,
My eyes
Follow
The
decoy
his
head never
turns |
