Little Sketches
He wore heavy, industrial size hearing aids. You could see that both his ears were thinking all the time about getting together and doing something fun but had much too much respect for his mind and so whispered very privately amongst themselves about what an idiot he was.
There are hack poets, poet ‘hacks’ who write imitations of poetry while performing stand-up comedy routines at poetry readings around town. Some hack into poetry too, illegally.
Of all the world-wide rankings of major achievements, where does poetry rank?
Is poetry anal?
Am I alienated? And if I alienated is my alienation all my very own?
On the other hand I ride bikes with a man named Maurice. Maurice is known as the slowest bike rider in the world. No matter how slowly I ride Maurice is always far behind me. There’s nothing I can do other than turn around and bike toward Maurice in the hope that Maurice too doesn’t see me coming and turn around too, thinking he’s been going to wrong way. O Maurice, what clowns we are, one of us going one way and one of us going the other!
Our politics must turn inward. Inward is the only place we have to go.