“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Saturday, December 1, 2018
thingamajigs
Call it crude
if you insist
to designate
that whose design
and functionality
seems rudimentary,
basic shelter
remains enough
for those requiring
little more than
distance from destruction.
Wallowing as we do,
from time to time,
the space becomes so small
between,
our feet become our shoes
and it was as if this was
plentiful,
the question of survival
posed as neither
safe nor sound.
Not saying
there were other ways,
and more than enough
to fill blanks
with trinkets.
Painting by: Anonimous french master previously attributed to Trophime Bigot. See official website. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Dem bellies full
When the fridge is empty,
I crave paper money.
When my pockets are stuffed
with receipts and detritus
there is nothing more to buy
into.
Love does not accept
money as tender,
yet it seems to alter
chemistry
dissolving this exchange.
As compelling as it is
to appropriate,
as we must, everything
has a place,
the toil never ends.
Pockets of air
take care of filling empty
voids and holes
and we are all full of it-
Language to gnaw,
gristle and by the way-
none of the above
ever satisfied the thirst
for our own consumption.
I will find a way
to take smaller bites,
preferring less
seasoning
or taste in love.
Painting by: Pyotr Ivanovich Subbotin-Permyak. Down the river (1918).
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