Poem-A-Day

Keepers

by Larry Rapant

Poems the fingers wrote without consulting any other part

Poems that stammer with a desperate need to know

Poems that hit the ground dancing in their bare open wounds

Poems that put the wide in the eyes of the kids

Poems that Sugar shivers when she reads them

Poems that can eye you right through the shower curtains

Poems with a scent of decay

Poems like a long-haired law-breaking convertible

Poems that ram the Men at Work signs onto the soft shoulders

Poems that will lick your tattoo until it’s unrecognizable

Poems that will make the whole damn trailer park sway on its axles

Poems that you have to pull over to add stanzas to

Poems without knees whose eyewitnesses give widely varying accounts

Poems with voracious appetites

Poems in the back seat fluttering and scratching like the treetops

Poems that ocean at your door

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I'm a dotty old man who lives next door to Assisted Living. I’m trying to Hack into Gene’s mind and break the story. I’m also in love with a local poet named Jill whose last name escapes me. I take 5 mgs of Tadalafil every day which makes me a very happy man. My poems are all jokes on me.