Saturday, June 17, 2023

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Procrastination As A Vehicle For Moving Beasts Of Burden

 
Bear with me,  
 
Comrades! 
What manner 
Speech to give before 
These shifting 
 
Mute masses, unable 
To mutter 
Vocables stable 
Enough to enable them 
 
To make 
Each new unbearable 
Moment more 
Bearable in the end? 
 
In the meantime, waiting 
For an answer to descend 
Like some Marxist-sent 
Deus ex machina, I move 
 
We vote quickly on a motion 
To table the motion again! 
 
 

 

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Stoics In The Doldrums

 
What say we finally 
Snap out of it, chum— 
 
The wind that took us 
This way and that has nothing 
More to give us—it’s about time 
 
We live with that. 
 
 

 

Sunday, June 11, 2023

Haiku: Save Your Breath

 
What does a poem have 
To say to someone who knows 
 
How not to listen? 
 
 

 

Friday, June 9, 2023

Word Of Mouth Sadomasochistic Poetics

 
The last time I heard, 
The voice of the muse 
 
I’d been listening to all 
These years had not 
 
Come clean with me as much 
As poetic decorum warranted— 
 
Clearly, what she’d wanted 
From me was consummate, 
 
Complete fealty masquerading 
As poetic licentiousness, 
 
And not by any twist 
Of a garbled imagination, 
 
A license to play down- 
Right dirty with my mind.
 
 
 
 

 

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