Monday, January 20, 2014

The Day of the Failed Poem


Tonight I spent an hour kicking around
A would-be poem in which I put a few
Winged horses tiny as hummingbirds
Springing up to fly about my head you
Were suddenly in there too laughing
And the one you plucked from the air
Whinnied sweetly and I wrote I hid my
Panic with a smile oh on top of that was
The great cardiac arrest of sunset dying
In agony and the indigo fear of placid
Shade and other such labored phrases
Vulgarity’s not a substitute for wit but shit
Who writes like that good lord! still it’d be
Cool wouldn’t it to catch a puny pegasus

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