we learn differently or so say
the specialists... those highly
educated folks who, right or wrong,
believe their opinion is the only
fame in town one should attend.
2.
they brought out the body bag
to carry off his remaining thoughts,
they bathed and dried and polished
his remaining ideas so that all night
sex wisdom would be lost to the world,
a dime a pop was charged to see
that in death one is more respectable.
3.
ideas trudge through my mind
like old celebrities on a 'comeback'
whose act no longer draws a crowd.
4.
about my job, I am proud, one man
is quoted as saying... Is he proud
because he does it well or because
that is the only thing he can do?
5.
she took my eyes seriously
putting her own interpretation
as to what they said... a
blameless oversight on my part
for looking at her in the first place.
6.
I reach out for you
and am given a cup of
coffee with sugar.
7.
she sat there chewing like some
pig being fattened for market,
thinking she was there for attention.
8.
there was no more time
for either of them anymore,
he writing with lead
and she pumping with iron.
9.
It was at thirty that
one begins to notice
maturity comes with age.
10.
my day begin the same each day
and once I leave the night's resting place,
it is to the same seat I go and
with my coffee write a few for a few and
it is that context that my day can be spoiled.
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