Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.
I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.
Another all-open mic this past Wednesday. I missed part of it and hurried back only to be breathing heavy throughout the rest of the night. Sorry, guys.
It was interesting to go play the video. I usually do this, but in this case I was hearing some work for the first time. It was fun to catch up. It altered this poem's outcome. More nonsensical than I'd like, but I'm going with it. Thanks to opening poet Jackie Chou and emergency host Jon Wesick for giving me the idea for the title.
Thanks for reading.
The Case Against Poetry
The rush of doing
something horrible
over and over again
No quiet flutter
of butterfly wings
can hope to computer.
Even a gas station
can hope to computer.
Even a gas station
surgeon knows that.
James Henry taught
tyrants that death is
tyrants that death is
a good second option.
Good beating evil
gets no ratings. We
know that because
it's never happened.
Ants have to know
better.In animal
kingdom, serpent
gets picked first
and sheep goes last.
Time will become
William Shatner
slow in a car crash.
Might as well play
the spoon as the band
goes down with you.
Go from one God's
promises to another.
Your hairstylist can't
triage you now, and
your nurse is behind
another wall you can't
crash through. Everyone
you know wants to
bea a poet. It's all the
writing that gets in
the way, the real work
that gets too mythological
like a tree ent dancing
seductively for the next
nature porn. Something
to while waiting for the
rockets to fly overhead.
Special thanks to Jackie Chou, Bil Lewis, Jon Wesick, Richard Spisak, Jan Rowe, Jeff Taylor, Nike Truth, Robert Fleming, Ethan Mackler, Rich Boucher and James Van Looy.
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