lesson
it’s all about trane today
his picture over my tv
stares down from a perch
indiscreetly observing me
as i stare and pop and listen
the frequent jaunts, yes,
to the porch for a smoke
i don’t have to hear
the technology any longer
the sounds are in my head
“my favorite things” today
and somehow i’m ashamed
that i never saw the movie
that i thought it wasn’t “cool”
someone else made my decision
where are those “someones” now
i’ve become a man without peer
groups that engross one in the banality
of mindless conformity – take your own
need for reassurance and hide it, if you will
voices begging in a cybernetic exercise
“i hurt – do you” – never knowing what’s
ahead, thinking only of what’s behind
a grave for sure you’re digging for yourself
you can grab “the now” any time
it’s somehow all about making ends meet
it’s a play set forth in this suburban entendre
it’s a coming-to-grips with all of the positive
it’s a refusal to nightmare your way through
it’s a matter of understanding perception/ritual
that’s what it is
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Carter Monroe lives, works, and writes in the provinces. His novel, Journey, was published in January 2001. He participated in a conspiratorial effort with Robert Canipe and Tim Peeler entitled Writers on the Storm. Both of these books can be purchased at most major book chains as well as the traditional internet outlets. Recent poems and stories have appeared in Poems Niederngasse, Poethia, Third Lung Review, Thunder Sandwich, The Americana Poetry Consortium, Lost and Found Times, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
• Sitting in With the Sun review by Jim Chandler Thunder Reviews •
"Sitting in with the Sun" available at Rank Stranger Press |
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