Sunday, April 13, 2025

Today's Poem is "For Free / Sky High"

 

For Free / Sky High

 

I pop up

as a wolf lopes past

Sky High and another and

another pops up

when I’m with you

I’m a metal man

 

airful or raffle; waffle or awful trifle

 

it’s a close call and it’s free

and the band melts in the sun

while you doze, fishing

when will we ever earn

We scrape the popcorn ceiling

with strands in the face

like a Zebra at the Fillmore

as useless as a dying wind

on a panda vacation

 

Edna is Transcontinental as well

her sympathetic anger crackles

as she peeks out a basement window

at the loping wolf who pops Sky High

a purple monkey riding on his back

says I wish Edna was my chick

 

the third time I say the magic word

the magic happens, magically

and the wolf timbers off into the distance

It is then that the anger subsides

after popping Sky High

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