Culture

Culture

Culture's not a silly word,

Affected and effete.

It's as real as sex and war.

Not everybody thinks so.

And god is not for humankind,

Exclusive of the beasts.

The other animals are just

As sentient as Man.

Though there's little they can do

But love and mind their business.

10-24-13

Epigraph

Can I think these poems

Were written by a boy,

Alone and fat, unworthy,

Living in the fields

Of walnut trees and vineyards

In 1955?

Or do I overrate them?

It's midnight. And I'm tired.

10-24-13