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GALLERY

stumbled, bumbled
into the gallery

snooped around and then
it was I saw you thick
with the rest of your coterie

thought it was an artifact
or small item of sculpture
that you were fascinated by
that
had seduced you

but then I realized
classic metaphor —
was a genie
stoppered in an
ornate bottle no
cheap container for wine,
no not at all

so you were all acting so
superior, so artistically
enlightened
that I grabbed and
smashed the bottle

let that genie free
for they do suffer, do
tend to fall foul
of imprisonmenf
these magical
poets, artists, writers who
cannot help but
display
as altogether different
quasi spiritual and
supernatural beings

and thus
my special wish
and emerging friendship

as we
made our way together
out of the building

laughing at
the poetic justice

how wonderful it is
when it
just so happens

as they battle with the thought
of eternal confinement

at least
they have so much
time (if not
space) for
self-exploration

and a ready, captive audience,
for all that beautiful narcissism
compelled
to share

ELEGY

Sorry
your poem
got
gunned down

could not help myself
just had to
missed all my shots
reloaded
missed all
but one
hit you in a foot
slowed you down
then riddled you

start to finish through and
through

yep
suddenly came over all
sociopathic clown touting
AK-47 and .5 callibre
Desert Eagle

Oh poem
of yours

feel so bad about its demise
feel so bad
sorry for you

bad
as it is

will write it
a beautiful elegy
(best my meagre talents
will allow).

MEDIAN

the medium is
the message

but I am out
have exhausted my
stock of words

wish
there were
a word store

or way
to paper over

seems
all that material
all my fresh and new
and vital truth
has simply
been recalled

and I must scratch and scrape
until my cortex bleed
to remember
anything at all

poem is what it is
does what it does

how difficult to talk
that talk

laughablle
to define
(been like
that since
the start of time)