POETRY

The Bitch (& Bastard)
by Michael Tartàglia, © 2001
After birds have gone
start slipping on snow
for pain or pleasure

or whatever. Flakes
chill away sniveling
of school children,

freezing the limbs
of who've no choice
but to clear the stuff

and hope it melts
exposing used products
and unpaid labor on nothing.

When it comes again
(greater or lesser in severity)
children'll masticate clumps of it

aduls'll procrasintate clearing it
... all complain or worship
as in years past and...

Damn.
               What to write?
Nothing is settling in mind at all!
Random thoughts scream about my head!

What can I say
when my language is symbolic,
not archaic nor phonetic?

How could I say it?
No theme is fresh in me!
All roads've lead to roaming...

Poetry is a cursed wild bull
madators struggle to tame.
How did others make a mark?

It's as if I'm forever looking
at snowflakes not falling down...
wait...
           I said that in another poem!

Now can you understand what I mean?



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