TELL ME

TELL ME

tell me
tell me

more more more
about that blue guitar

the Picasso painting one
upon which you
changed everything

writing this classical
exposition in and between
risk and damage
reports
      a mountain of which
already in
your out tray

and me too
did spend time
in the insurance industry

but was thrilled beyond measure
to hear
     that there is a music
so powerful it is
antithesis to same

and Emperor of Ice Cream
what can you
tell me
    about this
the statistics that went into
its exact calculations

every day spent
            in the underwriting office
filling my pockets
with stolen office slips

the reverse sides of which
scribbled with phrases
images (not even
lines) things
    I was kind of hoping
one day,
     magically
might (my finale of seem)
turn into poetry