Happiness is Poetry: Adrian Manning
Another recommendation tonight from our friend Hosho McCreesh, I really like Adrian Manning’s work and particular this first piece. Check out Concrete Meat Press as well, fabulous stuff. Have a read, enjoy and have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane
AT THIS MOMENT
Darkness envelops this house,
rain has begun to fall.
Air is heavy and ominous here.
I see your face in the window
and the tears
of the centuries
run from your reflected eyes,
slow at first they gain
on each other.
I have done some bad
and useless things.
When the rain
and darkness are gone
they will still be
bad and useless things.
Silence will remain
to remind me,
building a wall
between us
as unavoidable
as history.
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SHARP
walking the streets
of san Francisco .
see that apartment up there?
that’s where Buk stayed
when he read here once
A.D. tells me.
the wild party, the broken window.
it’s legendary, I’ve read of it.
looking down, I see a
broken shard, like the old guy
himself, still sharp after
all these years
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RELIGION
by Adrian Manning
they come to the door
peddling their manifestos
and offering their reading
material.
I am not interested.
I tell them I worship at the
Church of Bukowski
and I have plenty to read.
they look confused.
they don’t understand.
but you do
don’t you?
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