Two Poems
Peter Schwartz
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nimrod

they say I'm dumb
but I've heard kiloton prone
in the trumpet notes of sorry
tortured out like Cinderella
on a winter soap box

I've seen satellite efforts that
shrunk their reward to tears
drowned in the ooze of embattled
gobbledygook by some decidedly
inaccurate moonlight

I've smelled the subterranean woes
on the soles of fat jitterbug professors


the heat, the patent yoga rot of
bottled roosters in an open market

I've touched the tin eureka
in the polar ascribed to
choppy midwives underfoot
still mascot happy from the last
fragile engine opposite

I've tasted lightning cooked tender
random off grapevines with a twist
of mandala, cheroots and pomegranate
ether and silk and pin and rib

*and for you idiots
I've heard the vulnerable sing