Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Poetry from the book {Bunny Hop} by Artist Troy Richard Thomas

Do we really need you, can you ever sing our song?


I head East into a reservoir called a river


The giant heads of sand rise like serpents


You can't reach me here in this place of water and sky


Prolific little shit falling into the that mix


Bum,Wanderer, Drifter, Loner, Painter


I tell a farmer that I am an artist, and he asks me to paint his barn


John Muir was evermore a walker and genius, he could live off a loaf of bread for a month


The river gives life and takes life, (a body is floating in a backwater


I dearly needed you, more than I realized, that knife to the heart doesn't matter at all


No stretch of this river is true wilderness


Bridges falling, dams breaking, roads cracking, wires cut


The telephone poles sprout with life


The jungle cat becomes king, whatever for, he did more fighting than ruling


A wound stretches across my arm, the sun dries the wound to a crust


There's nothing the good old sun can't cure


Flying pigs and the Jesus of Detroit


Headless chickens run around Miss Van Campballs living room


She tells me she used to be a Dutch treat


Sperm floats from her mouth like a Lawrence Whelk bubble machine.



  

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