mean poems


i could be hosting something 
i may look okay
but something's there 
and i don't mean poems

i've had it easy 
broke an ankle once, leaving a party 
on a Bonneville TT  to get my music
sat out Vietnam

wars, bad illness, the ridiculous archness
of annoyance, that's not even in the picture 
when it's learned i live on a boat
and write not even fish bite 

this worries me, i'm right 
to be concerned, the burning 
when everything's been so good 
i feel i better get going 

and you know what?

i'm looking at Sam Donaldson on t.v.,
the gray in that S-curve hairpiece?

wonderful!

my cure shall be simple and longlasting




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