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Melamie Browne  (email) Houston, Texas

 

About the Poet:

Melanie Browne lives In Texas with her husband and three children. Her work can be seen in Madswirl, The Poetry Warrior, and Heroin Love Songs. She has work forthcoming in Word Riot, DecomP, and Gutter Eloquence. She has a new blog at  http://badpantomime.blogspot.com/

 

January, 2009

Poetry man

Poetry man Is more than

Just the title of a cheesy 70’s

Record I saw today while

browsing the aisles of

the Half Price

Books and Records store


Poetry man came  before

Cro-Magnon man

Australopithecus,

 & the Neanderthals


& poetry man

will continue

to burn inside

 the quiet chaos

of his shattered

mind long after

the extinction of

Homo-sapiens

 

except for the occasional

barking of his

neighbor’s

three lonesome

Rottweiler’s


A polluted literary river

one poem itself

will never cause

people to weep,

to scream,

to throw their

underwear at the poet

in an rock- star fueled

frenzy

 

There's too

many poets &

writers  floating on

 dreamy driftwood

in a polluted

literary river

 

each day  as they

gently fold one

meager  thought

into yet  another

useless

observation

 

a dash of  Nabakov-

fueled scribbles &

just a pinch of  a  lovers

conversation

barely overheard in

a crowded chain Italian

restaurant

 

(we are all like

That moth

Pinned alive on

Page one hundred

And ten)

decoy

The owl decoy

Protecting the

garbage outside

The Burger King

Drive-thru

fooled us both

 

then you were

Reminding  me

About our

first apartment

 

how the

Raccoons

would dig through the trash

 

remembering

how their eyes would glow

 in the glare of the headlights

 of our car

 

 giving us blank stares

a cold black night

 

leaving the parking lot, 

My eyes

Follow

The

decoy

 

his head never turns