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.
Thanks to everyone coming to Wednesday's open mic. We closed out the fifty-first year quietly. It was fun. Tonight, I head to meet up with people to secure a location for our live open mic. Can't wait to have something to announce for next month.
I worked too much this week. I got more work to do this weekend. Here's poem I had fun writing. Nice to take a break and write this. Thanks for reading.
To-Don't List
Walk blind in rain, plant
seeds in growing mud,
put self under arrest in
Start missing bullies, reunite
with random high school.
Take a backyard vacuum
to mom's back yard woods.
That will give Mom one
more thing to obsess over.
Wear your ex's sweatshirt
and walk their hometown.
Bring a pistol to the next
breakroom debate session.
Call your Mom again. Last
visit went so well, after all.
Buy diving gear together
so you can reenter her womb.
It's the only way to undivide
your broken family, right?
Bookend your family weekend
with a bee for her bonnet.
Walk away for home crooning
"The End" by The Doors.
Visit a sex toy shop, unbox
them in a drive-in, loudly.
Bring in a mess of muskrats
to your next love scene.
Give your partner vertigo
by giving back their virginity.
Repaint it like a stolen back,
return it otherwise pristine.
Play the trust game. Have them
make the first fall. Drop them.
Turn this guide book right side
up, see how much you got right.
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| Thanks for making it for the second half, Jeff! |
Special thanks to Bil Lewis, Laurel Lambert, Jan Rowe, Ed Gault, Chris Fitzgerald, Kathleen Hulser, Jon Wesick, Julianne Powers, Carol Weston, C.C. Arshagra, Jeff Taylor and James Van Looy.
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