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B2. Vitamins and Minerals-The Man, So Stuck
by David GarnerVITAMINS AND MINERALS
1. The Rooms Look Bad
2. The Man, So Stuck
3. He Wants to Move
4. He Takes a Nap
5. He Falls Away
6. He Sleeps Too Much
7. He Needs to Breathe
8. He Finds the Book
9. Just for Example
10. And So He Does
11. Just Follow Me
12. He Grabs Some Cake
13. It Comes to This
14. The Soul Seems Lost
15. Kick Ass
2.
The man, so stuck. The man, so stuck.
The cornered man in a cornered cage.
Quiet, in a quiet rage.
The man, so stuck. The man, so stuck.
All his dreaming in recession.
Chemical, chemicals of depression.
Both his feet, tensed and curled,
A panicked planet and a whacked out world,
Rub together, never still.
Never peaceful, ever-ill.
His lower back curves too far in,
Broken marble and some rusted tin.
Anxious and he feels as if
When the neck gets sore and the back goes stiff,
The physical-and-spiritual, they clash in a rage.
He feels as if hes twice his age.
Fifty, sixty, maybe more.
Maybe eighty, eighty-four.
Wrinkly, crinkly, staircase, old.
Hungry, tearful, sleepy, cold.
The man, so stuck. The man, so stuck.
03/19/2008 Author's Note: Vitamins and Minerals was written in June 2003. It was originally performed as a One-Man-Poetry-Show at One Arm Red Theatre in DUMBO, Brooklyn. You can read the poem in its entirety. Or broken up in 15 individual pieces.
Posted on 03/19/2008
Copyright © 2024 David Garner
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