2:24 A.M. POEM
On
perpetual Saturday nights, like now,
and also
like then and 2 1/2 minutes from now,
Belly, my
belly
gurgling with dark coffee and venom
urges the
primal *urp* of action
yelling, churning like a gigolo
begging to
set out to farms and clouds and corn
to drink dark earth there as it was intended.
Not the polluting air
nor white wrapped filth lip-sticks
or smoke stacks leaking ash into the sky.
Just laying
on dirt/pillow
focusing eve-beams like radio signals into
outer space.
Calm stomach,
creature soothed by the music of crickets and coyotes,
let me
sleep there
as perpetual Sunday afternoon lingers,
spending time
spinning tops,
grinning,
snoring in
Morse
the tuneless song of the content.
Scott Carrington
MS III
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