Sunday, May 6, 2007

#701: A POEM, IF YOU WILL

The Clay Pot That Emptied Itself

There are few thoughts
in this empty vessel,
steeped in a chemical bath
at the cost of forty dollars a month.

I once worried over timecards
and transportation and shopping and
and where my next cigarette was
inside a dry skull with a dull thud.

Now there are the small, white pills
taken in the morning
before I've given any thought
to this or that or why I'm here;

little, white, divided pills
that smell like paint thinner
stop all the worry and consideration
that once led down endlessly forking roads.

The thoughts that were are gone:
the electric charge of hypotheses,
the rise and fall of battles won
and lost and begun and imagined.

I am left to forage for animal fulfillment
among food and drink and people
to satiate every present, terminal desire.
I am left hard-pressed at day's end

to recall a distinct impression;
There are only rapid snapshots,
soundless, thoughtless scraps of one thing or another
to which I have lost all attachment.


(this poem was originally posted by Schmutzie at Schmoetry)

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2 comments:  greeneggsandtam Beautiful Schmutzie! I hope you are well. I think of you often. Love Tam    pepektheassassin Ah, Schmutzie, I like all your stuff, and you, particularly. Your poem is great, and I will try your receipe (is that spelled right? Nope?) soon.   blog comment guidelines post a comment ~ Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom] ~ main page