I don’t like knowing
that there’s a YouTube
channel out there for
gun-nuts called “The Warrior Poets”.
I’ve looked at some the videos.
None of them have anything to do
with poetry.
I guess that’s okay,
but,
I still don’t have to like it,
so I don’t.
It does give me a reason
to write down the fact that
I believe that I,
in fact,
am a warrior-poet.
My friends are too.
John, Hans, Larry, Kristopher,
and Josh…
We’re a gang.
We’re a conclave,
a klatch of bare-knuckle
sophists, street-wise surgeons
of verse drunk on our own power.
Beautiful bruises,
pooled blood,
split-lipped
ripped pages
broken pens
shattered lenses.
We’re the dogs of war.
***
-JBClaywell
© P&Z Publications 2019
Mar 11, 2019
Mar 11, 2019 at 5:14 PM UTC
I don’t like knowing
that there’s a YouTube
channel out there for
gun-nuts called “The Warrior Poets”.
I’ve looked at some the videos.
None of them have anything to do
with poetry.
I guess that’s okay,
but,
I still don’t have to like it,
so I don’t.
It does give me a reason
to write down the fact that
I believe that I,
in fact,
am a warrior-poet.
My friends are too.
John, Hans, Larry, Kristopher,
and Josh…
We’re a gang.
We’re a conclave,
a klatch of bare-knuckle
sophists, street-wise surgeons
of verse drunk on our own power.
Beautiful bruises,
pooled blood,
split-lipped
ripped pages
broken pens
shattered lenses.
We’re the dogs of war.
***
-JBClaywell
© P&Z Publications 2019
"Put your friends in your poems. They'll be the only ones to read them anyway."
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