Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Eighty-five

Gehenna is rocking

and I’m rolling over.


There is nowhere else to go

so I build up.


Falstaff, teeters on the brink

of warbling.


They accepted the poem

but reheated my bio he says.


This is not the second time for everything 

because iconography is his first language.


An adjective gets stuck in your throat 

you begin coughing up nouns.


Elvis stokes the crucible with words

It’s going to be a long night.




©️Mark W. Ó Brien

12Apr2022

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