Published: 18 January 2025

Let’s fight to the death

I’m seizing the moment.
Not because the Romans told me to.
Because the moment is trying to seize me.

I must resist. There’s no alternative.
I’m back against the wall.
The wall keeps moving.
Creeping away from me and the fight.
So much for the strategic advantage of cowardice.

Some people have a bucket list. I have a barcode
pinned to my breast because I keep forgetting
what I want in the store of life.
The barcode says, “If found, return to shelf.”

People say the road rises up to greet you.
Others say it slaps you in the face and leaves
a dotted line that reads, “Pass. Any time.”

The fact is, you’ll always meet people running
in the opposite direction and everyone will say
the same thing, “Who’s chasing you?”

People don’t like beggars, or salespeople,
but they idolize billionaires who are skilled at both.
Go figure.

If life is tailor made for you, it’s a cheap suit
for others. In my case, the shoes are cheap as well.
It’s obvious the holes are not part of the design.

Holes a result of too much wear and tear
as might be found in my convictions,
my dreams, my poems,
that often start with the bang
of a great title and end with a whimper.

The truth is you keep fighting,
right to the end, when you say
to yourself, “I think I might win,”
and in fact, you do.

More Poetry:

written by AI

I asked Artificial Intelligence
to write a poem
in the style of Ward Maxwell.
It worked so well
I’m going to use it again.

a pinball am I

some people drift through life
others steam ahead, forge their destiny
I’m a pinball

we are light

in the midst of our teeming squalor
our inexcusable excesses
the moments when everyone says
shut the fuck up, not right now

where is superman

what does superman do when no one needs him
who is superman when he isn’t with us
where is superman when he isn’t here

Circle, unbroken

In Nantes, within a private library
there is a hand bound book, made of soft
now faded lambskin, held together with a
small leather belt. It is one of a kind.

That’s entertainment

The important thing is how will you be remembered.
You might have thought about this, or it might have been the
Ancient Greeks, it doesn’t matter, it’s what people think of you

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I’m going to use it again.

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