chinese fortune cookie there’s a good
chance of a romantic encounter soon
or old reprobate: a poem
i took my despair to p. f. chang’s
and there two women i spied
in black and beige and apple phones
sprite cleavages i sighed
21 with goofy laughs
they drank pink liquid down
and i old and reprobate
sleep, first moan then frown
Your poetry stops me in my tracks – it’s such a pleasure to read. I love this one.
Ah, Richard — thanks, thanks, thanks. Just this morning one of our WordPress colleagues commenting on my photographs said that the pictures were not art at all. He said, in effect, that they were at best an irrelevant blur. You can imagine my nervous system when I read that review. . I concluded that calculus and high school driver’s ed must be more exciting than my pictures. You have helped me recuperate, and I am touched, heartened, by your reply to this poem. I will promise to try to make many more of them, if you promise to keep your… Read more »
It’s a deal. And your pictures are most definitely art.