Stone Soup Croutons, 4-10-24: Boston and West Virginia Have the Same Rapture Issues

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.

Mary Ann Honaker stopped by for National Poetry Month. It was nice to play over. I thank Mary for reminding me of Henry & Glenn forever and Bil Lewis for his John Denver trivia for inspiring the title. 

Thanks for reading.

Boston and West Virginia Have 

the Same Rapture Issues

 

Can old holiday food be 

repurposed for survival?

What would Dupont do? 

Add a new wishbone, 

suggest you only eat 

under a total eclipse. 

Something gets lost

in translation. This is 

not the frontier that

Walt Whitman waxed

over. It's as if someone

has mistaken Hitler for 

Chaplin and said, Do 

carry on, totalitarian

world, just be funny. 

Glenn Danzig ditches

Henry Rollins for Hecate

to runaway down further 

south while the rest of us

try to ignore those crying

inside her serpent head

while joining the debate 

whether angers are neocons. 

 

Special thanks to Edward S. Gault, Jan Rowe, Ken Johnson, Jon Wesick, Bil Lewis, Robert Fleming, James Van Looy and special feature Mary Ann Honaker.