Monday, October 10, 2022

Relative Stranger

Hunched over a typewriter

fifty zebras swatting flies

laughing at the sawdust

wiping his eyes

It's how I picture

Charles Bukowski

violins playing and each time the

typewriter

dings

it's an epiphany 

again

and 

again

silent like a church

bells ringing in his mind

far away 

from the gaze

of critics

and fools

wading in a river

of his own creation

fish biting his toes

splashing

in the morning

rain

as the sun rises

burning up the forest

with each passing glance

The muses running through the trees

dressed in white

flowing dresses

as they scatter

and hide behind 

the letters spread across the page like grain

and the idea is eaten.

a new page

goes in.