AND VERY IDEA OF FAST FOOD
wake up
it’s dreamtime
the pot
is boiling over
blitzed it with
every conceivable ingredient
threw the kitchen
sink in
everything
under the Sun and
from outside this galaxy
Macbeth’s wicked sisters
never had the pleasure
of stirring such
a concoction
seeing the fruit of
their bizarre labour
come to
fruition
and terrifying death
in all sublimity
of
concept of
breaking
the heart of
the code
and
very idea of fast food
LEO B (for B.C.)
I can’t be sure,
but I believe that this
poem might not
have been
what you had in mind
when you asked me way
back then “to come
and look
after you”
whilst he who relayed
the request
would be a month
away amongst
the ladies of Spain
I’m not sure if a poem, this poem,
is what you would
have wanted at all
but sensing innuendo
I felt I just
had to decline your
gracious offer
face your lioness wrath
when I told you this
short and sweet
over the phone
short
and sweet
sweet
and short
since I did no comfort
caring back then
I have no idea
what
you think
how
you read this
what shared, interlocked, idea we have
of a poem
and how it is written, delivered
and read
how both parties in
the creation together
forge its
meaning
of what is here
a poem
might have been
a novel
gorgeous entwined narrative
we lived to regret
then revelled in.
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LEFT TO SAY
since she
is
goddess,
divine
it would have to be
mortal Adonis
to make the sacrifice
to tell their story
get
those beautiful,
painful words
upon the page
and there it was, their
love saga
captured forever
magnificent creation
and there Adonis lying
finally in the arms of grieving Aphrodite
mission accomplished, nothing
more for him left to achieve
nothing more
left to say
INSCRIPTION
I have copies
occur
in many different forms
have more than three
dimensions
I write write write write
if only to prove
that I myself
am an inscription
catch my drift
get my gist
go with my flow
even as
a greater flow, deeper drift
quintessential gist
is what
life
has me follow
dictates here
this is what I grasp
all that I have grasped
from that recitation
practically everything I need
to write, and learn, and be.
AS METAPHOR DOES
reached
the end of the line
another line suggested itself
popped into my head
demanding to write itself
or it unfolded even as I
tapped the keys
even as
the pen ran away
from me
metaphor transporting me
even as it burst
into thought
metaphorically
as metaphor does
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