Monday, July 18, 2005

enemy combatants

poetry isn't
dead just

an enemy
combatant

there are no
just dead

while away

this morning
whilst
I stood
over my penis
it rained

ideas

why can't
enemy combatants

just sit and watch tv
like the rest of us

the dead,
justly so.

2 comments:

Alison Stine said...

Thank you for your note. It was urgent.

Alison Stine said...

...what I was feeling when I wrote that, what I was feeling at the time. Still feeling it, but not writing it.