Saturday, June 05, 2010
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
THE OLD POET SAYS
“Yes. I recommend biscuits
with the hot sausage gravy.
Poetry needs some of that.”
*
“Yeah, I know -
church mice are
poor as poets.
So claw the sky
and cry.”
*
“Is it bad luck,”
they asked,
“to start that poem
before finishing
this one?” “No,”
he said, “poems
are only starts.”
