Ten Lines From My Distant College Days

"Curse 'em,

disperse 'em,

those enemies'

attacks will never cease;

never respect your peace.

Too shadowy and covert to tell

apart, but all things will be made well

when God deigns to release

their blasphemous souls to hell."

---ShellySand,

"Seating Fresh Brewed Tea In A Long Standing Queue"


A toothless big mouth, with a gummy bite,

can never deliver that much of a slight;

unless you grant it permission to

do so.  But take off each confining shoe,

and in long grass, your dark socks absorb the dew.

But deflect and ignore abuse---

especially theirs---which no more demeans

than the look of frayed cuffs on your baggy jeans---

the fraying there put

during your long walks across the campus, barefoot.


Starward

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Author's Notes/Comments: 

Thank you, ShellySand, for the gentle words, sharp wit, and profound advice.  And those titles, my gawd, those whimsical titles . . . . (to paraphrase Ezra Pound).


The chapbook in which this poem appears, Escape From The Shape Of The Nape Of The Neck You Expect was published by the printing firm of Pryin, Preuan, Peawit, & Prowess, of Katzenjammer, KY, April, 1981.

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