Fits of a Fortunate Son
The schoolboy put
his shoes
on
stiff and new
as they
were
They hurt his feet. He missed
the old, comfy, scuffed
oxfords that
he mucked around in
While hazarding the slings and
yarrow stalk bastards of
schoolmates in the pent up
frenzy of childhood. Up till
Now he was
comfortable in
his own hide
The skin sloughed off. The boy
stretched into
something new and
odd. His vision
blurred from
Too many nights alight with the flame
of
reading
Seeding the desire to place
words
in front of
words
in front of
Verbs
Nouns
Adjectives
Pronouns...
He internalized the rules
at least the ones that
mattered. He even mastered the conceptual,
such terms as
caesura
and
salad days
His craze for
Hunter T. and William S.B.
accompanied
crusted
jeans
and
other
Slippery
shower
accidents.
He leaned in at night to his
radio and learned
the ways of
jazz and
rock and roll
The beat went on
He grew his hair long,
disdainful of the hoots and hollers
shoved in the mud
bloodied some
He kept his
adolescent
eyes
On
far skies.
One day
to make it
unpacking his word horde
before
The
World
No matter what it took.
School days are over for
this one.
A Mile in My Shoes
Cool shoes
cruel shoes
tried and true shoes
Goody two
timing
bitch
wait that was bitter and threw off my
metrics.
Hold on, let me regroup.
Tie my thoughts together
make the
double
loop
Ok I'm back
swiftly striding the sidewalks of
London
Paris
New Orleans
Virginia Beach
Los Vegas
Los Angeles
New York City
Oslo, Norway
Atlanta
Daytona Beach
Sacramento
San Francisco
I probably missed one or two
Unlike Prufrock, eager and
prepared to
eat that
Peach
with juices running
down my cheeks
(Never a complaint from the ladies)
and do I dare disturb the universe?
Fuck yeah
I dare indeed
Hoofing it powered by
Athena Nike
Until disability
brought me to my knees
I can still lurch along
in my own way
To the beat of my own drummer
humming an original song
A real sexy Gregor Samsa
with a yen for forever fun
The book has not been written yet
the journey's but begun.
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