theo talks about city land
i fade in and out the conversation
i’m thinking poetry
slight, dirty hand
touch wet
waft. tare.
sand
he says it sucks, and
people hate poetry
they like pornos better
i say
he laughs, and asks if i know
why
i tell him yeah, soft and shaken
its written for poets
it doesn’t appeal to the
common person
jinx i think
i drink some more coffee
its lost to the professors
and the not haves
i say.
theo can recite w.c.w
but he doesn’t know
jack shit about poetry
he thinks it should rhyme
have even meter.
that was fun he said
he doesn’t think words
are
sounds, pictures,
hues, lovers
he doesn’t hear language breathe
nor taste the salt of
the inadequate symbols
expressed in hopes to
preach the gospel
to the lost disciples
trying support the revolution
tryin to support the evolution
he…
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