Short Notepads Poems

A jazz musician
wonders back
to his days at the keyboard…
each note over practiced
until melody pure
and magic releases

A poet in laurels
wonders back
to his primers and notepads…
each word placed in order
until imagery calls
—and syntax digresses 

(Villanova University: October, 2021)...

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Here take another pill,
they say it make you feel better.
Forget about the side effects,
they don't matter.
The remedy is worst than the disease.
There's no such thing as cure.
Just these prescribed drugs
and the list keeps getting longer.
Never mind what your eating.
Never mind your environment.
Keep writing on those notepads;
gimme, gimme more.
I need some more,
can't take the pain.
I wanna be numb....

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