Terry Horn - More Poems
still talkin’ shit
i can hear it
what’s wrong
with being strange
writing
not writing
dreaming
lying
dying
carrying
a load so heavy
and
impossible
to put down
we will
take care of that
a team of movers
adept
agile
even good at
solving
the unsolvable
here’s your dad
carrying you
in his arms
we were
in the shed
unpacking photos
somehow
you had pictures
from
1697
“where did you get
those”
not sure
found them
in this box
and
that’s not
the strange part
here”s your dad
carrying you
in his arms
please
walk thru the
door
open the beer
drink it
from the can
lite a cigarette
have 2
drain the can
tell me ashtray
about love
accused
of not being
sensitive
looking for real
men women
anybody
drunk
singing hymns
kneeling
holy
for imagination
me and god
on a park bench
feeding pigeons
put
2
stupid men
in the same
room
make one a
dictator
the other one
president
expect
a great outcome
thanks,
the world
listened to you
and
i came
will follow your
directions now
heed advice given
taken nothing short
of miracles needed
daily
alleviate levitate
draw the map
show me where
we are drawn
together to circle
it home
will
be there by
morning and
everyday after
we will not
stop
they would eat
get full
and keep eating
greed
rapacious poverty
never enough
always full
always more to
eat
fearing contagion
how
you could drive
by
and i
would become
sick
just the thought
ignorant
in a car seat
determined
to go nowhere
and you deserve life
deserve happiness
deserve the time spent
never being alone
vulgar
marginalized
whittled
into
the shape of a
nun
kneeling
fingering a rosary
singing
prayers to god
seen as prelude
a commercial
about a commercial
money
gets you a look
unless
you know how to
read
can not
run away
can
possibly walk
can
still get
somewhere
just
wanting to
be
more than
opaque
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