Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Afternoon Nap

open your eyes

checkerboard patterns
on modern covered wagons
rolling on to parts unknown
and the missing words of
distaste and distraction
rumble around on the floor
inciting the inert masses to riot
seeking to overthrow the king
and burn the palace down
but the armies of consistent flavor
will fail in the night
leaving the automatons of numbness
to melt back into the
unfed corners of my mind

never mind-close them

2 comments:

  1. Wonderful to see the work you've put into this Blog, AJ.... take it from me... once it's on Blogger, it will never go anywhere. Also, there is a way... you might be interested, to download the entire blog onto a file quickly and easily, from time to time, so you have a copy. This would be a wonderful feature in Gmail, but it is not one I am familiar with.
    Great poem.
    Thanks.

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  2. Working on this keeping me from going insane.
    Thanks for your help with it.

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