Tuesday, March 23, 2021

today's poem - "Sonnet with Spaghetti and Meatballs"

 

Sonnet with Spaghetti and Meatballs

 

Natural meaning like homemade versus restaurant meatballs

invades my mind with empty detail and stories without resolution

like a tea tray resting on the hem of birdhouse roof high above

like the home cook trades presentation for rustic taste

 

I reflect on spaghetti and meatballs around the world

magazines, journals, periodicals, books pile up around me

as eyesight fogs and appetite to know eclipses reading speed

I compare strange meatball recipes in blogs and cookbooks

 

Music and construction TV shows alternate with Law and Order

cram unused mind sectors until I become reading impaired

assigned reading sputters slower than casual meaningless fare

and crashes like paper airplanes into weird roof intersections

 

Revolutions with no evolutions focus like a man without a face

in a revolution of decades in moments that settle like dust

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