keepin' with the poem a day thang

[concretekiss]

I don't dock points for commas he said
which are subjective, marginal, you
could scatter a handful across the page
& it almost wouldn't matter where
they landed & I thought of Johnny Appleseed
slinging commas over his shoulder
willy-nilly, in the children’s books
with ragged pant-cuffs, lead by a ridiculous
chin, cradles hanging from breaking bows
beanstalks splitting the sky, shops of horrors
in his wake & how a goof who wore a saucepan
on his head got so glorified when freaks
like Johnny come dime a dozen at college
parties. Anyway commas, dandelion dust
of prose, sprigs stuck between words, sips
of water between mouthfuls I thought of
ellipses, or commas in drag, phallic hyphens
corrupt punctuation patrolling lexical
highways but commas, half of the hicks
in my home town, mousy girls next door
accountants, DMV workers or otherwise
forgettable English professors

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hey thank you!

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

what's messed up is i sort of got frustrated with writing it so painstakingly with the meticulous & the all encompassing Life Message, & just let it fall out.