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.
Took me a while to get me the title out of it. It helped with Rusty Rose making a reference to the song "Tea for Two," which Art Spiegelman once talked about in an interview. I'll share his words with Rita. Probably not here.
My Friday is all out of sorts. Got more work to get back to.
Thanks for reading.
We Are All No One
They've rewritten the script
as another victim offscreen,
floor on reused VHS tape.
Dude bros pay in crypto
while misquoting Gatsby:
"Erase the past? Of course
you can." The great colonizer
is about to speak on how the
Wise Foods logo is secretly
an Illuminati symbol. Those
forced to watch strangle
their emotional abuse animals.
Their homes reek of extinct
flowers. No one's trying to
seduce anyone. After the
speech, they watch shows
about America's start, eager
to go back to when they were
all too small to be noticed
from on high. Tonight's opera
features the hunting down of
the last pandas. Audience
participation encouraged. Last
bits of other language is being
preserved by future conquerors.
Same phrase: I am America,
over and over. No other song
for family or whale corpse.
Everyone wired in to witness
the pain of the eventual other.
Special thanks to Mary Ann Honaker, Richard Spisak, Jan Rowe, Jon Wesick, Bil Lewis, Rich Boucher, Dan Flore, Rita Rose, Robert Fleming and James Van Looy.
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