Two Bar Poems Two God Complain Poems
Portrait of an Old Bar
In a Forgotten Neighborhood
Oh, down at the bar the boys
are playing, singing around the
bar, on stools, chairs by tables
they sit here and there
did you hear what I whispered?
I merely whispered
here and there the boys sit, like
pinned dogs in a cage locked
as dead as dead is possible
to exist and exist there still.
I said, a poet once lived there
I saw him singing and dying,
around the bar, on stools.
Across the room, a pool table
made from corpse's, once there
their ghosts exist there still
as dead as dead is possible.
Did you hear what I said?
I merely meant
how glad I am not to be there
I'd be singing my songs with them
and bragging and singing and lies.
And I know now, and knew then,
it was my soul, lost in the booze,
my cage door opened, unlocked,
my drunken face, stopped singing
and the Poet got away somehow...!
No: 2392 6-4-2008
Noon Walk in the Bar
The spring sun beams
drift through a narrow bar door
as I walk through Death Valley with no shadow
It pulls at my breathing
and searches about for me.
The walls speak.
I hear them speak all afternoon
I will drink my evil, drink my evil
The craving extends
and reaches out to me.
The ceiling breaks.
It droops and smothers my face
in the presence of my friends, my friends
The world is full of friends
When you're drinking!
No: 2393 6-4-2008
God Complain: Poems
Immortal Soul
I gave an immortal soul to the flea,
And nobody thought, this was great,
Rather they said, "Why didn't he also
Give one to the Elephant!" And that is
When I knew, I could not please man,
Or even the monkey, nor the valet...!
No: 2394 (6-4-2008)
Immortal Woman
A child dies in it mother's womb
Just at that moment, I gave it a soul,
It really has no identity at this stage
(he will form his later, with me),
And the mother thinks, all it could
Have been...but without the soul he
Would have not become...,
She flatters herself that she created
Him, that she alone is gifted,
Perhaps from her inordinate vanity
No: 2395 (6-4-2008)No: 2395 (6-4-2008)
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