I love getting screwed
over by friends
It makes one so
much wiser
© Chagall 2013
Tag Archive: poetry
I
wink
my left eye
then my right
I
bring symmetry to seduction
Though
that last one
did feel palsied
A little
bit too much
pull
in the cheek
© Chagall 2013
How distinct
must I be
in the statement
of my prayer –
to what degree
must I
enunciate
to assure
you understand?
Let me make it easy,
let me make it plain:
God
please
help
me
now.
© Chagall 2013
Just like the girl on the tapes I order un carafe d’eau
hoping it will solve for thirst I have
If I smoked I’d light one now
strike it nonchalant
With just a touch
of distant stare
to show the wheels
still turn
Circumspect to be
less than
ordinary
I have somewhere to be
so I say I must be going now
Je dois partir maintenant
To you lovers
at your tables
I nod to you
in silent unknowing
Your gaze on my back
falls for far too short
a moment
© Chagall 2013
In the poem of poems
there’s a rhyme on rhymes
and a bouncy little part
about meter
Overall its meaning
is what it wishes
to say
© Chagall 2013
I will hold the excitement
I feel for this day
despite the naysayers
I am bound to encounter
as I wind through
the course of hours.
© Chagall 2013
I mistakenly wrote
until we part
When obviously I meant
till we meet again
We will miss
one another
Now overtakes
the mist
© Chagall 2013
Suribachi dawns
a beautiful fan of light
waves push time to shore
© Chagall 2013
Is there
a novel in the couplet –
what’s the form for?
Is this a simple case
of it is what it is?
© Chagall 2013
I’m afraid
we’re all out
of marches today
they say
there’s a shortage
of stanzas
not enough
to go around
too many jingos
out there
© Chagall 2013
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