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.
DeWitt Clinton gave us such a wonderful feature. I want you to all to pick up his latest collection, Hello There. That might be a better tribute to the night than this poem, which got taken over by thoughts about the impending Saint Patrick's Day parade.
At least I tried for brevity, and DeWitt's words helped me along at the end. Thanks for reading.
Things to Do During the Saint Patrick's Parade
Pay with rose petals
and stray yellow feathers.
to keep back the thunder.
Avoid random cabbages
in the street. Look for
their tardy warning
to turn away from
you chosen path.
Don't meet up with ex
and find out how much
peace they have post-you.
Accept you've been rejected
by the only two genders
you've ever known.
Watch them dance drunk
with trust, in line, wearing
invisible Chinese Dragon suit.
Delve into memory
of approving faces.
It's shrunk again.
Wonder what part
of Bruegel's painting
could you due noticed.
Think ahead. Invent
things to do when rest
of the world dies off.
Switch places with
the garbage, which hasn't
outstayed its welcome.
Don't be stupid. React
to the person telling you
hello out of nowhere.
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| So Ethan Mackler went twice, I guess. |
Special thanks to Bil Lewis, Nancy Dodson, John Wesick, Jan Rowe, Mary Jennings, Chris Fitzgerald, C.C. Arshagra, Ethan Mackler, James Van Looy and special feature Dewitt Clinton.
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