penniless Poem does not look
well in this light, stark and industrial
dawns with loud semis coming
and going from the factory outlet
behind, a swamp squawks and chitters—
it is unclear whether it pre-existed the mall
or was moved there
Poem is waiting for a ride or something
like epiphany and is attracting stares
the guy across the way selling
burgers and whistling at a vague idea of salvation
why does Poem always end up out of it?
out of sync? out of fashion? out of the way?
pacifism ripples from the untoward
breeze, an ease, a conditional spark of
not knowing why or who to demean, not
wanting to own any of those favorite terms for torture
commercial driving love into mouths, a kind of self-
immolition and Poem exists, stubborn leaflets crumpling under
the boots of the pornographic entrepreneurs
consolidating an unsustainable hate into
something all the stakeholders can approve
jeez, Poem thinks, presses a thumb to his
pulse—if I am not a live man then I’d better
find some new seeds—not a plot but an area—
immolition and Poem exists, stubborn leaflets crumpling under
the boots of the pornographic entrepreneurs
consolidating an unsustainable hate into
something all the stakeholders can approve
jeez, Poem thinks, presses a thumb to his
pulse—if I am not a live man then I’d better
find some new seeds—not a plot but an area—
something simple, some camouflage, some cache
2 comments:
The semis (literally meaning half) was small Roman bronze coin that was valued at half an as.
The poem is the salvo of the semi that says hello to 'so' (as in 'so it is'). The poem prays for itself while you wait for its profit. The poem stuffs your self with the silhouettes of old desires. And in the end, the area of the poem isn't plowed but pulls the barriers into their own face.
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