mister Street
wants all the meat he can rip off
the bones of the world
walks tall past it all
strong as a Wall
built according to plan
mister Street
will throw you a treat
and take what he knows is his,
just knows it is,
according to plan
--
(c) ilyse na'omi kazar, 1985
written about a lover but today I'm thinkin' Wall Street,
therefore capitalization added
It's all true. It's all good. It's marvelous and mysterious and so beautiful it hurts. It's the story that unfurls inside us and around us and between us. Live the story or you are already dead.
16 October 2011
12 October 2011
Classroom
a box, a
yellow box
with motionless
figures
sitting, stranded,
each wrapped
up in
his own
thoughts, worries,
feelings,
and bits of trivia
flying,
trying
to find a
poor, unsuspecting
head to enter
and
fill the spaces
from which the
dreams evaporated.
(c) ilyse na'omi kazar, 1972, age 15
written while desperately bored in Spanish class
with lasting gratitude to my English teacher Alex McKay
who submitted the poem to Typog (where it was published)
even though the picture the poem draws of school made him sad.
yellow box
with motionless
figures
sitting, stranded,
each wrapped
up in
his own
thoughts, worries,
feelings,
and bits of trivia
flying,
trying
to find a
poor, unsuspecting
head to enter
and
fill the spaces
from which the
dreams evaporated.
(c) ilyse na'omi kazar, 1972, age 15
written while desperately bored in Spanish class
with lasting gratitude to my English teacher Alex McKay
who submitted the poem to Typog (where it was published)
even though the picture the poem draws of school made him sad.
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