Tag Archives: existentialism

From Not So Fast

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Not So Fast

But there is a chasm
filled with scripts
or screenplays.
Somewhere there’s a rusty
RCA Victor mike
And a Yamaha amp
with peculiar buzz
of mosquito secrets
And no one has been able
to fill the ad.
Openings and closings delayed
with the same repartee of one of these
shows.
* * *
Can’t both stare in the mirror
in the same moment.
Two wholly wholes
halfway blended
Connected – a point just beyond
the brain.
Craniums fused into one –
crammed
with lyrics
of cowboy songs.
A multi-appended chimera
facing two ways
into compromise
And when one goes
I’ll have to carry
that load
too.
String arrangements.

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With A Toast

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The thief of effort

brews all letdowns

into a stout, lager, ale-

something distinct from vodka,

wine and smoke

of existentialism.

 

Movement halts for a sip-

goes over the logistics

of passion

and takes another look

at plans.

 

Drunk on regret and failure

more time passes

happily with a toast

to friends and the future.