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.
David R. Surette featured on Wednesday at one of our livelier open mics, which included someone who reminded me of the guy from "The Tom Green Show."
It was great to have David's quiet poems close us out.
I wanted this week's poem to reflect that, quick and quiet.
It's not quick, but if you don't read it aloud, you can provide the quiet part.
Thanks for reading.
Not On Your Facebook Feed
himself, then did, then went
back to playing his type.
The friend who made a sincere
effort to make you normal,
The friend who laughed when
he found out your teen porn came
from the woods, under leaves.
The friend who tried to take you
all out with him with his cigarettes
in the break space outside work.
The friend who stood in for all
talk shows of the future with gossip
safe only fifty feet from school.
The friend who excused every
fascist in history, convinced you
he'd shrug off your own murder.
The friend who lived alone after
kissing the future prom queen,
stepped out of society on a high.
They'll either trample your grave,
or you'll outlive each and every
of the bastards, still missing them.
Special thanks to Mary Jennings, Bil Lewis, Nancy Dodson, Jackie Chou, David Miller, Mignon Ariel King, Jon Wesick, Bryan Franco, James Van Looy and special feature David R. Surette.
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