Stone Soup Croutons, 7-26-23: Warning Ritual

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected 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.

 

Jason Wright assumed the mantle of host this week. It was good that he got to advertise the first ever Oddball Festival he's putting together this August. It was a fun  group of regulars, which helped to produce this poem that's almost a sequel of last week's crouton poem. Of course it helps when Jon Wesick reads a continuation of the hilariously dark piece he read last week.

It was good to get some rest after the week I had. 

Thanks for reading.

Warning Ritual

Political intrigue before breakfast

means it's almost Friday, puts taste

of sawdust in your morning meal.

Actually, flavor more like roomie's

overnight guest, making more noise

than another broken up peace rally. 

Newest visitor is schizophrenic, and

you are not. A cacophony of wasps 

attacking bees for flamboyant color.

Someone will die before universe

will ignore you. Cereal follows into

sink like roommate's other discharges.

Another judge's son runs rampant 

from your doormat, pisses on a bust

of Saint Francis, coitus interrupts this

pure morning, goes native to discover

America again. Get down with death's

angel today. Something to tell future kid.

I provided the open mic list for Jason.

Special thanks to Jon Wesick, Bil Lewis, Jan Rowe, James Van Looy, Robert Fleming, John Engstrom, Carol Weston and special host Jason Wright.