Thursday, February 23, 2017

Poem #101 Viva Voce

They’d been playing for a funny
Screwed up his red eyes
In the house
There’s people I don’t like
Studying through
The telephone telling morning over
Something out hung up Young man
With all your stories
Be polite introduce people
Fell down dead
Don’t ask a lot of questions
I’d know the truth about exactly what happened
A curious case down the gravel path
Give you a lead until you get the statement
So horrified by the sight: Man with the red nose
Laid them on top of the ready pile of jammed powder
I’ve tasted the luck been my very worst friend,
Beginning to the end a touch hangin’ round by his coffin
A minute before morning
Drunk out beer bitter hanging
Laid on the shelf
Tell him for hours
In fountains of air,

Eyes flood, salty sea.

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