It’s All About Time in America
Posted in Verse on Aug 10th, 2008
To write poetry in America,
you have to be old
and spent,
or young and wastefully bent,
rich enough not to work
for another penny,
you have to be a nurse
off your weekly cycle of work,
you have
to be off your rocker;
you have to be one, or both,
or all of these things.
Wasting in want,
wanting, even in plenty.
To write a poem on love
in […]
