Poetry on Medium
A place for original poems on Medium
Bocce Poem
He was the only troll with a pizza oven that he said behaved like a Chevy Impala (the ones from the shittier year) and his ex wife. The…summer made his nephews think he had dementia, but he just wanted to play bocce like the rest of the world, which people admit when the cameras aren’t on. ¶ He bought pianos when places were going out of business, in some misguided attempt to flip them; they ended up in pieces in a storage space that used to be stables for shit-covered horses before carriages became a thing for successful dates. ¶ He’s signed every T-shirt he’s been asked to autograph.
benba57Mar 21
Downed Power Lines Poem
They say don’t move any downed power lines even if they’re completely disconnected from the poles. Your shoe could easily be against a…stick, against a puddle near a mayfly with just enough dust on two legs to connect everything back together. ¶ There’s a brand new cat stuck in a drain just past that bachelor who designed his own house, so I didn’t bring a shovel to scrape you off the curb.benba57Mar 17
Delete Poem
Windows cannot delete “you;” it is invisible and even shy. We were freezing with two pairs of gloves on while I tried to show that electron…motion means the internet is a thing, under the routine helicopters. It’s real easy to get a list of psychos’ habits and try them out just for fun; you can end up learning to read 10 times faster or calculate the area of a big ol’ fat person’s back, covered in a bad floral, smelling like scorched oil under a car that was paid for in the 80s. ¶ Amtrak has cornered the market on places where you could dump a body, and no one would ever find it, despite Google Earth.benba57Mar 16
