Random Selections of Poetry

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.


=Memento Mori=

  You _dick_
If you were alive today I'd
  Smack you so hard
Your head would
 Spin;
       but then
    if you were
 I wouldn't have a reason 
   to do it.

Ours was a class of
  theory,
         not experimentation;
We were talking
 philosophy,
      not rationalization
-- or so I thought.

Now you've graduated
 and all I've got
  are a few fucking souvenirs
   and fast-fading memories.

                                  -- (91/92, untitled printed in _Pathways_
                                   finally got a title in the summer of 2000)


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