"1st Place Winner of the Open Community Poetry Contest for the period October-December, 2010. Read the full interview with Mr. Mantel here"--ed.
Read me
after
you
won't wanna Read
just anyone
&
the anyone
you Read
you'll get
Cacoethes Scribendi
I live
in the 3rd. House amongst
the rooms & roomers
of
serial Poets
where roomer has It
Cacoethes Scribendi
The walls dissolve
solve
the Vidalian Manifestos
Emily & Amelia's plaintive arcanae
G.M.H. posies anew
& Sylvia
cuts a wider plath
Pound-for-pound, expound
in
Bows to the Bard, all...
Cacoethes Scribendi
Manys are the ways
of says
Days of yore
nay, the rub
is
Fore...
Read me?
The Poetry of
Christ Crisis, Jesus!
Cacoethes Scribendi
More
Your Cocktail Party, TS?
Ain't no Brautigan Trout... left, right?
Manys are the ways
of says...
Lenny, dear, missed Lenny
I'd daven the 55-yr.-old-hipster's ring
had they not shot you
when
you laugh I weep, cry
in the 3rd. House, 'mongst
the rooms & roomers -
Baldwin Malcolms
Malcolm Baldwins
in
serial Poet -
where roomer has It
Cacoethes Scribendi
The Poet Parable & Paraboled
Nazarene
up, onto
the parched pages
stages
Sages
sapient sum, but
the cum gun scrawls all
Cacoethes Scribendi
And the other
Brother to the Son of the Father
a Mother of all motherf******
big bad John The Beatle Baptist
all pall
Cacoethes Scribendi
Ashbery brandy
Bly the grace of G^d
front the windows' portal
graces the Bureau du Roi
defers
the tabulae rasae retabled
to palimpsests
streams of freshets aflow tributaries
ajoist enjoined my mistresses davit
to larger waters
Cacoethes Scribendi
In the 3rd. House, among
the rooms & roomers
of
serial Poets
where roomer has It
I live
Prosetry moribund Prosetry
Cacoethes Scribendi!
H.e.m.-H’H.
2.6.MMix.
