poems
Woven Words
I saw the word tapestries with a line break and read it tapes tries.
Bakery Door Haiku
Benny, left message on the machine about rolls and where to get them One-syllable edit. Dom’s Bakery Grand, 506 Grand St., Hoboken, NJ, 4/26/15
Martha by Name
spam poem #2 Hello how are you today I am Martha by name and I want us to be friends. I don’t know how you will feel about it I hope you wouldn’t mind We don’t know each other; I will give you every detail about myself soon yours Martha
I Am You
I will go where you are, absorb what you say. I am done with who I am. I am ready to be you. Seek me. Others have but didn’t find me. I am invisible but I am available. I am a ghost. Make contact.
Possession of Documents
a spam poem I am in possession of documents relating to assets acquired by my cousin during the war A couple of months before his death he instructed me to migrate I wish to move overseas I need your help Please reply
Holiday Inn, Tewksbury-Andover
Eating room service French onion soup in the dark hoping the baby will sleep Merlot arrived sheathed in Saran Wrap sealed for someone’s protection not mine Two-alarm fire in a three-story building watched across the way yesterday We were safe, always safe bag baby 2000 Subaru Brooklyn Brookline beyond Puncturing cheese with a hotel spoon […]
Mail From the Farm
December 3, back home from visiting an art gallery and a movie alone, I fetch mail from my box in the first-floor vestibule, beige brightness filling the space from the fixture overhead Quiet darkness still trying to seep in through the front door’s wood-trimmed glass. Purple envelope from the farm. Old college roommate: business degree […]
Where Is Chuck Norris? (Google Poem #1)
GOOGLE POEM #1 Walmart. White pages. Wheel of fortune. Where is Chuck Norris? Where do fruit flies come from? Where do penguins live? Where do people go when they die?
Found Poetry: Mead Composition Notebook
This has been printed on the inside back cover of the 100-sheet Mead composition notebook since at least 1994. I only noticed it recently. CORRECT I am / You are I am not / You are not I have to I have seen / I saw I have done / I did
Technical Difficulties
I’ve watched at least a little bit of the MDA Labor Day Telethon every year since I was a kid, and donated every year for almost as long. This was all due to a fascination with Jerry Lewis and the schlocky side of Hollywood. This year, which was to be Lewis’s final appearance, he will […]
Jack Silbert, curator