today's poem - "I can't finish the poem that never ends"

 

I can’t finish the poem that never ends

 

It was a day or a minute or a second 10 years ago –

more or less when Bugs Bunny branded orange peel stars    

began to sing the Shaft big house coffee house blues

so I can’t finish this poem that doesn’t end

 

No one knows what is in the heart after another can of wine

and play Rock House Hospital Blues by the Palestinian Authority

at a gathering on a personal boom box behind rows of dumpsters

 

Slow and steady the Laundromat Concierge wins the race

What race? A pink giraffe in the House of Bishops Star Wars  

Espresso game is announced low voice from table to table

by which poem never ceases its passengers never blend

 

From Super(Pachinko)Fly on lemon peel who can explain away

top to bottom 5 years ago said Yosemite House Sam

those switzerlandish poems hornswoggled by dreary friends?

 

First married in the lightness of the council's wedding horns

they heard from house to Vietnam Coffee house White House Caesar

to the High House Holy Wedding All-Star Game un-played

 

I don't have to practice Pam Grier as Coffy's thinking to walk the dog

that an audacious telephone game of a poem won’t bend

until never mis-dreamed the poem without end continues