Interesting. I am very much a rhyming poetry kind of person and am at a loss as to where his more free form version of poetry deviates from the expressive language that can be used in prose.
lines are kind of blurred probably. thanks for viewing.
The American dream-fat ladies on therapists couchs
health food obsession meets psychologist's candy
The American dream- guns for sale executions to
follow,
Your right to shoot and your punishment to die,
The American dream- personal neurosis,
collective self assurance,
anti abortionist gas chamber caressing.
The American dream-mom's apple pie
classrooms of children waiting to die
The American dream- wholesome and clean
liberal thoughts and reactionary deeds
The American dream-bizzare and mundane
continuous movie for the normally insaneI saw despair in a black bag
Felt it,touched it and threw it away
But once again it stood beside me
Crying out for a taste of anguish
I laughed,it was a joke,a fantasy
Then i looked down on the floor
The room shook and the fragments sharp
Tumbled on to the once golden floor
I bent down to pick up the pieces
And like a rusty needle they went through me
The earth went dark,oh so dark
I tried to smile,a vacant pit.
Laughter,what is laughter?
I cannot tell,it avoids me
There is just the darkness
And the broken fragments on the floor
(A poem written when i was 15 in 1972)
No pills this dysphoria can cure
this life’ll destroy me for sure
nearly 49 reaching for a sight of ten
needing a glimpse of me now and again
Looking to trust,no trust to find
paranoia gnawing at my mind
disjointed days,emotional haze
it’s always been this way
Wish i was free,born again
Wish for sunshine feel the rain
angry tells me i’m alive
desolation cuts deeper than the knife
be good spoken word reading,
like.
I remember a poem by Billy Collins about his grandfather’s death…his father put his hat on the table and looked out the window and it ended there. It was somber, non-rhyming, and beautiful! I took a poetry class at the community college and we got to read billy collins.
Thanks! I’m tethering my cell phone’s wifi to my laptop so I can’t watch the entire vid or it’ll eat up my data, but I’m watching the beginning.
Best to start with his book Sailing Alone Around the Room.
I’ve hit a writers block after being inspired for a while it’s very frustrating