Sunday, February 16, 2025

Poem: Clamming Up For Everything


 

Clamming Up For Everything


I

mouse on cotton

traipse the rug

eleventh floor

noiseless the way wire coils drink undertones

when insulated


quiet musicians are mice on cotton

quiet boors on thorazine neglect to obstruct performance

the relatively sane free market

is allowed to gavotte to the right of bankruptcy  

here comes a flat top and there's money in it


Soon people go broke and despair

they get loud

not like a mouse on cotton

or a boor on hypnotic drugs

they squawk like chickens


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