metonymy4u

                                    a consensus of brief poems (interrogated,
                                    as to their commonalities)

if we write our history as a tribe of endless funerals
the nails in coffins melted together adding
up to one large memorial statue on the lawns
of nameless cities

burial within burial must end somewhere

if you wish to send me back my voice use your
own address – copy it over lovingly letter for letter
and garnish what space the open page reserves
for poetry

                        don’t trash the little ones for being different
                        time made them what they are and
                        morals are no more than lazy words
                        for things we don’t see immediately

tired of all their letters by last light
the man and his daughter rhymed a bit
and laid

their guitar to bed

                               they will see truth upon truth heaped up by ages
                               alimony paid for unwed couples laden with many
                               memories of children and will
                               not want for joy

                               resting in plato’s cave