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.
This Friday is a day of catch-up. Linda Wlodyka featured at Stone Soup back on July 3. My vacation officially began on July 4, which means I didn't get to review the video until this week. I tried to write it up over my "break," but that part of my brain was turned off. It was a fun night.
Written in stream of consciousness manner because it's easier when I'm on a tight deadline.
Thanks for your patience. Thanks for reading.
Unfounded Predictions That Might Come True
The Supreme Court will allow
the next debate to be done by
explode, Biden will be chided
for not knowing how modern
gaming works. Amy Winehouse
will return to say, Nooo, nooo,
no! before walking into a pond,
preferring to drown in joy her
second time around. Atlas will
shake world off for a one night
stand because somebody said
he looked gay, kneeling there
naked with the world, which
will then be seized by Nazis,
who can't keep it up, axis off!
Only Canada holds it together
by way of ice and sturdy moose
antlers. Schools will start holding
emergency reunions to ask what
have they done. Time is going
to run out. The juices of a final
fruit could be running down a
woman's chin right now. This
civilization could end up like
another dead friend's painting
on the wall. What will be the
last literary debate between two
lovers before the books start
burning? Our dictators will
have their portraits dipped in
gold, mass produced like Warhol's
Marilyn Monroe. Soothsayers
are praying for Earth to turn into
a rock garden, nothing moved
once in place, no movement for
centuries, only pushed by plants
when it's safe for them to return.
Special thanks to Richard Spisak, Patricia Carragon, Edward S. Gault, Julian Matthews, Bob Reeves, Sari Krosinsky, Jon Wesick, Robert Fleming, Ethan Mackler Bil Lewis, and special feature Linda Wlodyka.
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