Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked 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.
The son of last minute open mics happened on Wednesday. Bil Lewis wearing a Santa uniform made me write another Christmas War poem (funny, last week I hadn't even written one). This in spite of leading off with a reference to my Mom's injury.
Sorry to C.C. Arshagra for missing this one due to his own technical issues. Sadly, I can't blame any of my ramblings on technical issues.
Still time to submit to The Christmas Wars over at Oddball Magazine. Thanks for reading.
In The Christmas Wars, The
Home Front is the War Front
Post-injured foot, Mother's left shoe
like another relative called once a year.
Dream gift Barbie's Malibu Dream House
You barely need a warrant nowadays
to destroy a home on short notice.
No time to change the dolls out of their bikinis.
You had your one life to live, babe. It's over now.
Santas are dissenting, trading red coats
for t-shirts, milk for an already bitter drink,
a continuous line of cherry red scowls.
The therapists are left to triage each other
in the streets, dancing on corners for their own good.
Soon, no one will be able to poke fun at Detroit.
Detroit will be everywhere, all glass smashed
into tears drained of empathy. Even the hard boiled
eventually go and get smashed. This morning,
it's the return of the the same summer mist
that occupied our entire fall. America is the
one poem we don't want to write. It is the food
we stress eat, our last surviving oral tradition.
Refugees one horse open away, take refuge
in slightly different part of homeland,
hope eventual snow will cover sparking tracks.
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| No C.C.? Forgot James ? Battin' a thousand here.... |
Special thanks to Patricia Carragon, Jackie Chou, Jan Rowe, Karen Szklany, Chris Fitzgerald, Nancy Dodson, Ed Gault, Carol Weston, Ethan Mackler, Bill Lewis, and James Van Looy.
1 comment:
Great fun to read!
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