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 first Stone Soup of October was this past Wednesday. It was a fun night. I finished writing my rough draft of today's poem last night. Getting back fully on the Stone Soup one careful step at a time. I should be at the live show with Carla Schwartz next week. More live shows, more live dates, will be announced.
I'm happy and nervous about this. I'm doing a lot more poetry work in the months to come, which makes me more nervous. That's why I'm getting this poem out to you now so I can focus on other things.
Turns out I don't write poems with "Misanthrope" in the title as much as I thought I did. So here's one more. Thanks for reading.
The Misanthrope Orientation Package
Unsolicited kisses
need permission
from that beast
manunkind,
who wears clown
makeup. If you
don't take your
sex life seriously,
Upperclassmen duel
with whisky on
whether you're
a ghost of a shell
or a shell of your
ghost. Penchant
for Democracy
in conflict with
self loathing,
physicists and
witch doctors
agree you need
a cleansing.
Better for the
economy if you
at least try to love,
stop playing
grab-ass with
grab-ass with
your multiple
identities. That
money spent on
rope for you
and the plants
could go towards
Build-A-Buddha,
other cat toys
for enlightenment,
When it's cold,
rub two tectonic
plates, ignite
new reality.
Special thanks to Chris Fitzgerald, Ed Gault, Julianne Powers, Nancy Dodson, Jan Rowe, Bil Lewis, Annette Tarpley, Jon Wesick, Julie Marie Hoey, C.C. Arshagra and James Van Looy.
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