Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Seventeen-Syllable Sketches

Be

Between phony formality
And false familiarity
Be.

Pulp, p. 152

Aim low
Don't try
To sleep in your own bed at night
Is success enough.

Bukowski

Too degraded
To be called effete
His droppings were poems
Nonetheless

Meat Wheel 

Meat wheel rolling
Ever voiding
Hopes of mortals
Moiling
In the Void.

Maker of Gravemakers

Born to die
Lupine Road
1922
Wolf to girls
Who make graves.

Forgetful Troglodyte

The bridge bum forgot
The shirt he stole
Which I found
And wore to Geneva.

Animation

You are alive!
So not just body.
Mystery of animation!

Universalia ante rem

Same shape
Different size.
Two Tabasco bottles
On the window sill.

 


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