Friday, March 5, 2021

poem - "marginalia"

 

marginalia

 

The parade at center page isn’t much

Blah at best, its paradise hides

behind a rhythm of nothingness

in superfluous kips from line to line

 

but in annotations hidden artists lie

whose sly nods to the gods of lip

pip missing mosaics of color

whiffs of liberation and mystic waggery

 

Like when the president in an armored car

was en route to the Serbo-Croatian Social Club

to give a near-endless speech about nothing

we shouted criticisms and held our noses

           

Our Latin, French and Italian farragoes

prepare places for allusion; lost histories

season the tasteless stew of humdrummery

and free old dinner guests from the pages

 

 

 

                     

              

 

               Words are asleep  

               I awake and scribe

               dream reviews

               as mere prose stirs

               in the word bowl

from its outside

 

               All my cheap shots

               engage other ages

               of peoples’ writ

               in pencil and ink

               so I think I’m not

               a lone stale wit

 

               Flavors of the past

               aren’t lost, are in

               misted margins

               saying their names

               again at last

 

 

 

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