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Plastic Cup in the Subway

“A poem about a plastic cup in the subway, in the perspective of the cup.”


I move and toss my body round.
No impulse in my control.
No search.
No quest.
No problems pushed or passed.
Simple rolling through the subway cars.

 

I feel only what is pushed from me to the ground. Gravity is holding me to something.
I have no punctuation when I smack the sides.
I live nothing somewhere doing what is done.
I have no truancy of flesh because I was rewritten long ago.

 

Oceans of people stray around me.
An unending pause to purpose. It’s in me. I am the childish waiting- unsifted trash.
Because I am plastic bone
And I am and I am.
Here and here.

 

See me without frame crunched
on the floor
until I am picked up. And I will feel the shade without sunlight, crescent soft moon.

 

Outside.
Wherever they are going.

Bike USA

“Write about a young man going on a cross-country bike trip across America.”


It feels strange at night,
when I feel a wooden stool
or sunken couch,
instead of my bike on pavement.

 

Every hour I sleep- is a vacation,
from the dream I live on macadam.
When I wake to drain
the sun from my eyes
and pedal on for more.

 

When I finish rolling
like a cloud through the sky,
then I will be glad,
for every bump in the road long gone.