Thursday, April 22, 2010

In Memorium to Mark Kidd I.

life wrapped around cages
so often this
spectacle you
a discussion of death:
your purple heart

a royal color
running together the blues
and reds of expectation
and you are dead.

heat in flourishes
danger born and broken like
rivers that make us up
to our necks leaving
only faces for kissing

we’re going
where we cannot
spend our horses

so your war dollars
fall out on the table
getting fine pinot noir
a mercenary chortle
we toast after the feast

don’t laugh too hard
you are dead
I saw your face
hiding in the mountains
in your teal pick-up truck,
purple heart swinging from
your rear-view mirror.

5 comments:

  1. What can one say? Initially, one wants to find the mental hospital escapee that wrote this poem, then again extreme intoxication does occur at 3:35PM for some in this world. However, I think its safe to say that after 10 years of attempting to obtain a degree and still a "bartenda", its time to rethink reality...or perhaps reduce wine consumption.

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    1. has life recently become long enough for this commentary, Anonymous? quit pawing one out to your pen name in times new roman.

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  2. What can one say? Initially, one wants to judge you flat out for being a total douche. And for your inability to properly use a comma in conjunction with quotation marks (don't get me started on your ellipsis!) when criticizing another person's use of the language. However, I think it is safe that say that (I will use a comma here because, although I am mocking you, I cannot sink to your level of grammatical misuse), after several hours of angry commenting, you probably still just hate yourself.

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    1. apologies to Jordan; my previous comment was directed toward Anonymous, not you. your name took temporary and wrongful place in my typing mind. looks like the other Anonymous mighta had the same confusion too. holding Henry's hand right now. this is a good piece of writing.

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  3. WHAT CAN ONE SAY WHAT CAN ONE SAY WHAT CAN ONE SAY DIDNT LIKE THE FIRST POST BUT LIKED THE BEGINNING POST AGAIN POST AGAIN OH NO JORDAN JORDAN BOTH POSTS BOTH POSTS blog hero HOW AIN'T CHU DRINKIN???YO LIFE'S A BLOG JORDAN

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