[New-Poetry] "Shop Talk I"

[James Cervantes]

Thanks, Jim.  It relfects how I talk to myself about such matters.  I
just weakened and shared.

- Jim

On 5/24/07, jforjames at aol.com <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
>  A fun poem, Jim..., or '12. Reading should be like writing, only better.'
>
>  Did people see this one in APR by Hoagland, Jim's piece made me think of
> it.
>  Finnegan
>  --
>  I Have News for You
>
>  There are people who do not see a broken playground swing
>  as a symbol of ruined childhood
>
>  and there are people who don't interpret the behavior
>  of a fly in a motel room as a mocking representation of their thought
> process.
>
>  There are people who don't walk past an empty swimming pool
>  and think about past pleasures irrecoverable
>
>  and then stand there blocking the sidewalk for other pedestrians.
>  I have read about a town somewhere in California where human beings
>
>  do not send their tuberous feeder roots
>  deep into the potting soil of others' emotional lives
>
>  as if they were greedy six-year-olds
>  sucking the last half inch of milkshake up through a noisy straw;
>
>  and other persons in the Midwest who can kiss without
>  unpacking the imperialist baggage of heterosexuality.
>
>  Do you see that creamy, lemon-yellow moon?
>  There are some people, unlike me and you,
>
>  who do not yearn after love or fame or quantities of money as
>
> unattainable as that moon;
> Thus, they do not later
>                     have to waste more time
>  defaming the object of their former ardor.
>
>  Or consequently run and crucify themselves
>  in some solitary midnight Starbucks Golgotha.
>
>  I have news for you:
>  there are people who get up in the morning and cross a room
>
>  and open a window to let the sweet breeze in
>  and let it touch them all over their faces and bodies.
>
>
>  --Tony Hoagland, APR, Mar/Apr 2007
>
>  --
>  Shop Talk
>
>  1. Don't cheat on your images by having an affair with a conceit.
>
>  2. Sell your metaphor and get a real house.
>
>  3. For leaner meals, write your shopping list in rhyme.
>
>  4. A sestina on the coast, a 100 horsepower sonnet, the spray of free
> verse: it
>    doesn't get any better than that.
>
>  5. When the barometric pressure goes down, some poems begin to leak.
>
>  6. At welding school, sparks fly and images fuse.
>
>  7. The ozone layer thinned above the poetry slam.
>
>  8. A moving poem is ridden by every Tom, Dick, and Harry.
>
>  9. The poet laureate read a poem about a slice of bologna between
>    two slices of Wonder Bread. The final couplet supplied the mayo.
>
>  10. Despite the odds, a cliché grew up to be a symbol but did not run
>  for office.
>
>  11. Do you look in the mirror every day and ask, "What do I mean?"
>
>  12. Reading should be like writing.
>
>
>  -- Jim
>
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