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The Artists

Too much talent and too many books,

And all of them in print. But poetry -

The ordinary man can never fake it.

Shatter rules and puke his boring guts

Into words, it isn't poetry.

Rhythm, rhyme and metaphors and music -

That's the art. Does anybody have it?
Though like happy cats they groom each other

And coo superlatives and elegies.

5-27-14

 

Two Waitresses

Of all the waitresses in Christendom,

The two that I dislike are working now.

One would pull me from the audience

And put me on the stage with her. The other

Real as a seven dollar bill,

Like everybody's notion of a grandma

Would love me til I come. It's 9 p.m.

And I'm asleep with coffee and a book.

Misunderstood at home, the constant villain

I must fight to keep her in the house.

He loves her and I'm driving her away.

I have nothing anyone would want

Anymore, and once I had it all,

Needing only love. My poesy

From childish plastic phrases to a bland

And pointless cynicism, all my verse

Is changing in kaleidoscopic madness.

4-27-14

Confession

Confession is a cagey kind of verse -

A line twixt poetry and masturbation -

Nuts and bolts, people and events

Or something that is accurate and human.

I won't go home again. I'll sit in Denny's

Like the homeless, waiting to be fed.

5-27-14

 

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I seldom shower. I'm sure I stink.

I live in the USA

(Hoop-la, wars and rinky-dink),

Where all the people say,

“If I want to, it's okay.”

They're human, not humane today.

Don't puzzled pause and think.

Pack and run away.

5-27-14

 

Passe

One day he fell to earth.

He's climbing back to heaven.

Climbing since his birth,

He's 37.

My poems once were magic,

But that was long ago.

To me this loss is tragic,

Phrases once like Poe.

I wrestled and adored

The glory of his sweets.

I couldn't get aboard.

I'm never was like Keats.

5-27-14

If you like my poems, there are several collections of them on Amazon, both paperbacks and Kindles.  The paperbacks are usually $10 apiece, and the Kindles $1. You can find them by going to Amazon, clicking books on the drop-down and typing Joseph Hart Poetry in the search bar.