I LOSE
my dumb head
(like the color yellow)
just ruins me
sure
there are days
when the sky opens
to the sun
and I burst
with courage
like a volcano on
it’s birthday
or
the well-timed flip
of a pancake
(in the air
for just a moment)
but
before I have time
to sing
I’m
down
and
frying
again
~
SHOWER FOG
shower fog
on the window
gives the
bathroom
that
“inside of an
ice cube”
feel
~
LEAGUE OF GREAT MEN
there’s a league of
great men
somewhere
they play tennis
in white shoes
and throw elections
in black ones
they have meetings
in Mexico
under
hidden pyramids
and drink
Scotch
on the rocks
while changing
the coarse of
history
there’s a league of
great men
somewhere
and they don’t
sit in
their friend’s
apartment
in snot covered
boxer shorts
writing poems
to dead people
~
JEALOUS POEM
she likes the ones
that flow
like rainfall
in the gutter
the kind you
can capture
in a photograph
and that’s all
you need
their
faces
and
hair
are
art
she doesn’t look
at me
that long
~
I NEED WRITING
this thing
(this peace)
I have it now
it’s huge
warm and
wears
like a
sweater
without it
I’m really a cold
mess
I write
to no one
they wouldn’t
understand
it’s all
going on
in the
machine
when it’s not
I’m alone
and surrounded
by the lonely
~
SEAN TIERNEY 