When your wife echoes
old prophets’ warnings, maybe
now folks will listen.
When you are grateful,
you become joyful, happy,
Instead of scenic views and observations,
we watch reels.
Instead of conversations:
“Look at this.”
When I dive into/
filth, there’s nothing uplifting/
I can write about.
If I don’t put my/
soul where it can be inspired, /
how can I create?
I sewed my ripped jeans./
Not the best patch job, but my/
underwear won’t show.
The young bluesmen riff*/
And I, in awe, watch greatness,/
Like hearing Mozart.
OR
*jam
On a broken chair,/
propped up by rotting woodchips,/
I watch Fall’s death dance.