Dream
I
open a mailbox on the
street.
Inside,
a
note addressed to me, from
the
"Commissioner of Poetry."
My
poem "Show and Tell" has been
selected
winner of the big contest.
I
need report immediately to the
auditorium
to read the winning entry--but
I
cannot find the poem in my papers
and
I rush to the library, frantic, to look-up the
poem
on computer, but
all
the computers are being used, and
the
librarian, who looks like Dracula's daughter,
tells
me to go home and
read
GONE
WITH THE WIND.
Bought-a-Gun
A
hirsute man who
got
his kicks tying-up
chicks;
everyone thought
him
hippy-dippy but he
macho,
man.
A
Northwest cutie,
Dick
Bought-a-Gun;
he
wrote a funny book
(more
than one) and
extended
his metaphors far out
on
the limb--then sent them
further.
He
wore a hat shaped like a bullet
or
the head of a dick, which
he
could be
(and
can't we all?)
in
less poetic moments.
The
hands of the clock
swirl
round--
my
pictures jump off the
wall
to save me, but
cannot;
the
radio knows my pain, but
its
neutered sympathy annoys me.
I
surf stations but
never
get anywhere
I
want to be
so
sit
stranded,
beached,
on the shore
of
myself.
the
Worm of Time gnawing
a
fistula
through
a Dead Sea shell
of
apathy, indifference, and
fear
of the
not-here
yet,
phantasms
of drear
my
dears
(cut
to sob-story
in a
yellow-drama;
cut-away
suits,
the
mustard,
the
crap...).
Bird
song and
faint
sun in the
window
of time
passing,
like a
dream
of being
alive--sent
to
earth
for a purpose
yet
unrealized--un-
known--work
fingers
to
the bone for
karmic
deliverance
and
end of birth/death
cycle
of existences
innumerable,
inkalpable...
Yah.
People
around here have small heads, big
stomachs,
and
hop
like kangaroos.
It's
a zoo.
gangster
editor of nature
poetry
magazine running
a
pay to publish racket
cuts
me from the line-up
FB
headline:
'tragic
ending at 400-meter relay'
--runner
dropped the baton
"You
Are Loved"
the
mural on the building
reads
(an anaemic mix
of
blue & green.)
By
who?
Hoo.
Whom?
The
bank loves me.
The
store likes me.
Everyone
else:
lukewarm.
You are loved, made me laugh
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