Saturday, September 1, 2012


Lalo Kikiriki

Poetrypalooza

Seven a.m. in L.A.
and all over the landscape
poets wake in various
situations,
heading for Winchell's
or Starbuck's
with notebooks and pencils
or laptops and tablets –
every backpack and pocket
bulging with potential
for changing the world
 
fedoras and baseball caps
slammed onto poetic heads
hold in the night's dreams
until they can get them down
coffee or tea
fueling their muses
from Venice to Claremont
from Long Beach to Hollywood

1 comment:

  1. what great words :
    "every backpack and pocket
    bulging with potential
    for changing the world"

    "fedoras and baseball caps
    slammed onto poetic heads
    hold in the night's dreams
    until they can get them down
    coffee or tea
    fueling their muses
    from Venice to Claremont
    from Long Beach to Hollywood"

    This make it so clear the synergy I've always felt between poets...different cultures, beliefs, creeds, pedigrees, but the poetry is the glue holding our hands together across the nations.

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