Janesville Poems | Examples

Parker's Plight

Merely to scratch the surface
Parker’s clogged nib ruminates
“How annoying, scratch and scribble..”
My horizontal paradise lost, marred 
by the occasion drool coming from Goliath.
Laying down, often, I roll from side to side a cat’s paw 
for the skin sack above me
ah…I am beyond maudlin
I am blue, dilly dilly.

Blue like the veins in the digited palms
which twirl and whirl me across endless scapes of white.
Oh, how I long for a brighter surface, a deeper well.
Ah well, so full of Dear’s and Sirs and Madam’s
that an occasional To Whom It May Concern causes
twitters of laughter from the godhead.

I would dance with the pretty pencil, if I could, but
stand alone.. if only.. if only… I pray to the breath of life
above for a pen stand, and perhaps pink paper?
Destined only to stand or fall at its will,
I mourn.
I wonder what the paper thinks?

Sincerely,
Parker



*The Parker Pen Company is a manufacturer of pens, 
founded in 1888 by George Safford Parker 
in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States.