Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines
and impressions picked up from poems overheard from Stone Soup's open mic
readers and features. I figure out a title the next morning. Sometimes I'll change the graphic. Particularly if it's to get rid of a stock photo I took from someone's website.
Last night was the third
Stone Soup Poetry Slam. Congratulations to
Rudy Rudacious for taking first place last night. And thanks to the Societry of Urban Poets for making this happen. I was running around in the beginning, so some open mic poets were missed. However, I was able to borrow from all the slam competitors. Because of a birthday cake cutting and other factors, we went over by an hour and a half(!) and chose not to read my poem last night.
This is a weird one to write given that school starts this week.
Dismissed
I write graffiti in my salad
with my dressing.
This is not the act
of a person at peace,
more of a single man
going nuclear family.