Kit Kelen #1398 - advice for poets

1398

advice for poets

for a series

and possibly for the picture book of the poem

flaunt the got

you are the show

a wink awake aware

you must be struck by things

and tickled too

still a few lines missing

and too many by a few

a straight line

proves

under a cliché

anyone plays

until the truth will out

see how it shifts like the weather

as if it were always and already there?

and here we are

however you feel

when I say I it’s everyone

same thing with you too

can be own plural

we together – who can stop?

today the struggle

work’s to say

come – you picnic of animals

and instruments

together antics tell

always second guess the world

take super powers for granted

you see this smoke?

full of lost skies

remember you have to remember to breathe

and will you hold on to this lump of coal

pass a buck around?

I went in fear of abstractions

and found these few adage instead

the power courses through me

so that the bringing is light

do not work for the enemies of the planet

they’re not the ones who need your help

some of us have a voice

money works to make worthless

to tell the moment

tell the place

tell all

how it is

here where we’re not to be expected

these greetings make void

bushel lit

lamb to the slaughter

hide a self under stone

just for this one moment

I know where I am