No, these aren't randomly created poems (that is another page). This is a random grab from a selection of poems, mostly by myself, but with some inclusions from other folks: friends who write; friends who used to write; writers who are obscure-but-meaningful-to-me; famous writers. One advantage of this format is that, when there are variations of a poem that I haven't settled upon, I can include them all and let people give me feedback as to what they think.
+pardon me...+
Enter a room
silent people
violent people,
and sit down. we've been
waiting.
you know us and yet ignore us,
we prance and dance for you;
your grey lives being what we are taught
to desire.
we resign --effective as of this meeting--
and you'll have to learn
to entertain yourselves.
-- (sometime 93/94, printed in _Pathways_)
Reload this page for another poem, or hang out for an hour.
From here, you could zip over to my main gweep page.