Why would Naperville commission a life-size bronze statue of an elderly
woman in a cardigan, place it on a downtown stone bench, and have a city
ceremony in 1999 in her honor? Why, in a 200
techno poem #6
(from
my techno friend to the techno-challenged) here's what
you need to get your computer going while you're gone
—your keyboard, plug i
roundbarnpoem # 3
I trespassed yesterday found a way into the derelict
barn on the farm I grew up on my dad grew up there too I took some plaster
of paris cleaned out the handprints where
springfieldpoem # 7ah spfld spfld for several
weeks now I've been in minneapolis and while bike-auto ratio
isn't even there are still more bikes than you can shake a spoke at
but I want
clothingpoem #2
I came in haste not prepared
for cold
so today we visited a
vast warehouse
dollar-a-pound clothing in
bins hundreds
of folks mostly poor stuffing
shopping carts
I pull on a ja
underwearpoem #1 some people hold things against their
parentsall their lives mine probably will too my godkidsblame their
mother that she made them weartheir underpants a second day inside