So here you see Me No differently A homeless junkie From Some scum Seeking a slum To become A novitiate Put food on a plate Graduate Clear the slate Evolve Your resolve Dissolve Lack of love
Author: T.M. Shorewick
Why Gaze West
Why gaze West
You dallied in Dover
Gay Headedly distressed
White cliffs
Span an ocean
Revolutionary tiffs
Aquinnah
Knew North East
Yet shared their feast
Gosh
Gosh
He broke
His appointment
Ginger
Don’t get so
Steamingly close
We
Were here
First
The Stars
The stars And birds Ride them like cars Without words But their blems Know birth Beyond problems Of any girth Shoreside Or up the hill All fauna slide Just for the thrill They are bars Fed by turds Towards Dominance lacking words
Time is a Crime
Time is a crime Where every clock Will climb To some top rock And ring In a cadence Pretend to sing Reality so dense Only a human Can hear But the greater plan Will tear The watch Off the wrist Of Sasquatch And insist That time Is an artifact Fosterer of crime A human fact Which holds veracity Among those Accepting tragedy When eternal doors close Information is rife And timeless Known cause of life Found in each caress
The Saddest Part of Verse
The saddest part of verse Reliance on language Forces poets terse A need to temporarily engage With timing A phony beat Against living Ultimate timeless retreat But so much information A bard must squash Via muted intonation As compacted temporal trash Random information Sweetens linguistically Verbal versification Of polyglot humanity
A Pachyderm
A pachyderm
Glances around
Willing to squirm
Sans sound
No ivory
Nor tubular snout
But auditory
To all about
With eyes
In a strange place
It tries
To replace
Sound
With hue
And resound
Forgetful too
During a Sweep
Should a wolf
Or an eagle
Need nasal relief
Respitorially inequal
For one
There’s a beak
Just for fun
The other might speak
Nasally
But sniffing
Usually
Unlike high piping
During a sweep
There’s the smell
Over a heap
Both know so well
So the nose
And the eye
Neither oppose
Light, odor from the sky
You Were the Cure
You were the cure But abandoned Me pure So I secured A lure Out fished The manure Which piled On your floor My mind though Strolled About the goo Which piled To all who Were beguiled Through and through And got infected I still love you
The Kashanka
The kashanka Is a noisy place Will make ya Hide your face Yet it’s started Well over there The departed Were well aware Fostered a noise No more a taste Which with you cloys Not in haste So carnivores Mix smell and sound Hiding savage sores Let kishkes resound