Thursday, November 24, 2011

Bukowski 1

 
tonight I wonder where
my Bukowski went,
looking tirelessly under
laundry, plates, sheets,
bottles, and more
scholastic books.
I pause at an anthology
American Modern
Poetry!
Flipping through the
pages until confirming
Bukowski is absent
and Tom Waits is
silently looking out
a dark window at
pigeons eating
out of children's palms.
so quiet.
I
Would swear
he never
lived.

-Patrick Conners Jr

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