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.
Gary Duehr featured this past Wednesday. A fine night with only the occasional glitch here and there. Duehr's poems gave such a reading of Americana read during a time when I question all Americana.
Thanks for reading.
Americana Wannabes
doing pull-ups with their
and strangles the other
homeless who might be
gaining on lame limbs.
to be the good guy with
the gun ready to snipe
from the trees outside of
school. To be the wife's
most trusted and the
mistress' favorite. To be
the rock star who launches
their own pyrotechnics.
To be the Hollywood hero
on the airplane who still
kills everyone aboard.
To be their self-contained
ghost telling their child
self to get up and get a job.
Special thanks to David Miller, Nancy Dodson, Jan Rowe, Ed Gault, Bil Lewis, Jon Wesick, Silent E, Carol Weston, Ethan Mackler, James Van Looy, Robert Fleming and Rich Boucher.
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