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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

One of the many revisions of one of my poems

I don't remember what version I have previously posted: this poem has been called several different things and has several different versions. I like this one best, I think: (it's been called "Mein Mind", "Toast and Jam"...something like that...here it is called "Sticky Situation"


Sticky Situation

Toast a drunk en madness
it burns when overdone

never was important – what it was all about –
needed only to realize
my part, or lack thereof.

You splattered me with your jam
it’s after midnight

seedy streets will be deserted –
raspberry-red cars
spread thin somnambulant
I won’t get stuck again.

I cruise down open road
in search of anything
but it’s not there.

fell face down in it
Murphy’s law –
peeled my face up off the floor, with pride.

revel in newly-found notion
this is not my problem

I can do nothing and it’s okay.

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