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  May 2023 Rastislav
guy scutellaro
molly
the waitress
at Town diner

wants to be a model
or a nun,
tells me she's a poet

we're sitting on
a couch in her apartment.
molly takes a poem from
a foot high stack
on the end table,
hands me a poem,
"FIRST BRA," by Molly C.
it's about buying
her first bra at 12.
"i was big.
i needed a bra at 11,"
she smiles.

now
she doesn't wear bras.

she tells me
rod mckuen
is the most read
poet
in America.

"what about walt,
plath,
hughes?" i asked.

"no
no,"
she says,
"mckuen is the MOST
popular poet
in American history,
no,
really
the greatest American poet."

molly loves rod mckuen.

i love molly.

"if the public loves
rod mckuen,"
i tell her,
you've got a shot.
you could be the  female version
of rod mckuen."

molly smiles
takes me by the hand
and leads
me up the stairs
to the loft.

she takes the ribbon
from her hair.

i lay her down
on the bed

and bang the hell
out of
the next
most read
American poet
Rastislav May 2023
Tonight, in the darkness, sometime before dawn, while the moon and stars grew pale under the ghostly light of the approaching sunrise, wandering across a vast field, whether of wheat or of poppies, somewhere there nearby, I met my death. Whether she was seated or had fallen to her knees, she gazed at me in total silence, her eyes worn and  so sorrowful, as if longing for something deeply, yet unable to express it in words. It felt as though we stared at each other for an eternity. At some point, I wondered if she needed help, and a profound sympathy for her plight engulfed me. But then, I contemplated that she, too, had unexpectedly come across me in this very field under the dawn sky, and she might perceive that I, too, was anticipating something from her. I realised that I had nothing to say to her, and noiselessly, I continued on my path toward where the dawn is born. Easter is approaching, and it is time to prepare for resurrection.
  Oct 2021 Rastislav
guy scutellaro
...the meadow and the puddle
you wouldn't come out of

wild and simple joy

invisable to eyes, now...

I wander the meadow grass

the fields where the flowers glow
in early morning
sunlight

the fields you
only dream of
where your soul is always free...

and you come running
spectral through the mist,

I walk lonely fields
  Oct 2021 Rastislav
Draginja Knezi
falling
falling
falling
streaming song of rain
drop the ups
up
the downs
drown the sounds



the rocks are the clocks


stream the dream


(I could write the drops in but I thought you'd like to hear them yourself)
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