NaPoWriMo - I'll figure this out eventually

[kingtycoon]

There's a sound in the soundless
noisy ether
There are poems &
Rumors of poems
And I'm told with confidence
(which confidence rises from a lack of ventured trouble)
That this is April
& cruel or not it's the season for daffodils
& poetry

Easy compliance breeds compliance
without complaint - I'm game
so gamely go along
Having seen the best minds of my generation
destroyed by startups binging in the car-strewn streets at all hours
So go along, go along easy into that good-time.

But earnest too - like I was born in innocence
& gained yet more through experience
I resolve to read & this morning in the misty April dawn
I ponder
Colderidge
on my phone.

ON the dawn-treading bus I read the Ancient Mariner's Rime
& speculate idly about the ancient bus-captain
& suppose his rime to likely be an earnest rendition
of Marvin Gaye

No albatross is harmed but
traitor geese
pierce the fog
in honking misshapen V's

It's morning in a world that isn't, not without the intervention of words

The young man mutters
tuneless rapping on the bus & I
& a young father laugh and everyone sighs
to see him go at last at Last
to leave our bus alone & sing his music in another room

And do I dare?
& Do I dare to go to work with this bald spot in my hair
& With everyone carelessly share
these compulsory lines- given easily & away

Comments

[aslant.livejournal.com]

I like this.

True fact, dude who took my virginity quoted Coleridge at me. "We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea."

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

See, now as a middle-aged dude I think that's kind of hot as hell, but I think as a teenaged kid I'd be aghast and too shamed to say it.

Then, I don't think I'm anybody's first rodeo, so who knows what I'd have said.

[aslant.livejournal.com]

Well he was a middle aged man! So there you go. I found it terribly romantic.

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

It's lucky your parents didn't have him jailed! There's no romance in going after young girls!

[aslant.livejournal.com]

Ah no. Should've specified. I was 20!

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

Now I feel trampy.