Free Verse
A Flower in a Vase for My Love
A water drop
Falls on a petal.
The flower blooms
In the sun.
I pick the flower
For my love.
She fills the vase
With water.
A beautiful
Flower in
A beautiful vase
For
A beautiful love.
Five days later
The flower is dead.
Roller Derby
Kansas City Bomber, starring Raquel
Welch is on the screen, Friday night
Dad's drunk, again. Me and mom and sister in a car
Parked at the drive-in
Raquel is skating around the rink in her tight white number
eleven shirt and tights
Dad took me to a T-Birds game downtown Los Angeles at the
Olympic Auditorium:
Smoke stale room, adults drinking smoking
The skaters moved slower, the crowd was smaller.
It looked more real on TV.
Dad would leave me alone. I need to go to the restroom, he would
say. He went to
The restroom a lot that day. He always came back with beer on
his breath.
Nobody looked like Raquel.
Mom's crying and sister's upset (she's not with her friends)
My hand in popcorn and my mouth full of popcorn
Enjoying Raquel skating around in her four-wheel skates,
She wins the elimination race to stay on the team.
A victorious Raquel is what a twelve-year-old boy wants to see.
Next Friday we'll be back.
And that's the end.
Sometimes I Feel More Like the Whore Than the Whores I'm
Writing About
Whitman wrote about
America
Williams wrote about
Red wheelbarrows
Ginsberg wrote about
Cock
Bukowski wrote about
Horses
I'm watching a coke whore
Trying to find a good vein
In her foot and
All I can think about
Is wanting to fuck her
Hanging Around in a Knot
The morning comes too soon
When you wake up to go to work
The morning comes too soon
When you open your eyes and see your wife
The morning comes too soon
When you feel today would be a good day to die
The morning comes too soon
When you know you don't have enough money to pay the bills
The morning comes too soon
When you drive to work with your high-lights on and
Drive home with high-lights on
The morning comes too soon
When you have nothing to write
(And the sun sleeps)
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