Stone Soup Croutons, 8-28-24: Things to Do Labor Day Weekend

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.

 

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This week was just an all-open mic. We had fun. I am still tired. 

Something before the holiday. I am thankful to be privileged enough to celebrate it.

Thanks for reading.

Things to Do Labor Day Weekend

 

Raise toasts

to renters

floating above

the water, 

 

all tenuously

as ice cream

over mugs of

root beer.

 

Watch crows

waiting

to pick off

anyone 

who points and

says M word.

 

Sing blues for

venerable youth

 

in school liking

movie clips

 

while teachers

tick off forbidden. 

 

Salute expatriate

weekend warriors

 

back to visit 

their families,

 

chicks back home

to maternal axe.  

Watch it rain on

the just children

locked out by 

unjust playmates.

Celebrate world's

two thousand years

going without

quantum accident.

Mourn a lack of

alchemy solution

 

to turn idol gold

back into shit. 

 

Special thanks to Bil Lewis, Jan Rowe, Mark States, Jackie Oldham, Patricia Carragon, Edward S. Gault, Jackie Chou, Richard Spisak, Jon Wesick and James Van Looy.