Thursday, February 23, 2017

Rob Schackne #252 - "About that poem he wrote"

"About that poem he wrote"


About that poem he wrote
the girl who set herself on fire
while the cats watched in horror

I can only begin to clean up after
and it's never therapy, did I hear
the angry music of a bad world

anguish to anguish, must to must
nobody was on the bus together
who imagined that they saw it

Christ in a tree why do we don't
ride for hell into a wall, flattened
back into Looney Tune dimensions

sliding through the next twenty-four
writing poetry at the end of time
it's a page, it's a piece of paper

see, it's an accident to survive
look how we walk away shaking
the fire and the cats in the mind


4 comments:

  1. and reading poetry at the end of time too
    Christ in a tree and all
    an accident we survive all right
    and accidents will happen

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    1. at least
      we've got it better
      than the comics
      why we bother writing
      is sometimes another poem

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  2. but it is an accidental glory, in kind. Love it!

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    1. OK then
      this shudder
      of a poem
      back against
      the future
      looking for
      a way out?

      Delete

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