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Bad Lettuce
 
  
When time is
insignificant
when time is
full in my hands
overflowing
I dial the
old phone numbers
and listen
to the faded
stale
voices
which no
longer receive
me as they
once did:
sounding now
not
at all like
fresh
crisp
lettuce
 
 

No Lovely Voices

 
Today I
wanted to be
a director
of films
to record
some spontaneous
overflow of
feeling on film.
 
Two friends
of mind have girlfriends
and the
girlfriends stopped by
yesterday to
see me.
I spoke
operatically, in
monotone,
like an opera
with no
lovely voices.
 
From my
rocking chair, arms
outstretched
like a Village Greek,
I spoke of
fleeting hopes,
midnights
along.  I spoke in
vague,
business-style language.
 
Hoping they
would understand me,
I chose to
write a poem,
to develop
the event.