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how to get there
by Charlie Morgani started small; as all folks do.
and i met the Little Prince.
he must've started earlier,
he was taller, could see farther.
i too had questions.
i asked the gate keeper, 'is this it?';
he said, 'i dunno. you have to go in to find out.'
and i knew what curiousity had done to the cat;
so i pashawed the whole event, went away.
i had an empty crossword puzzle, all blanks;
the pencil i was using was a No. 2;
it was a No. 4 puzzle so my answers're wrong.
i, either have to slow-down or speed-up.
after all of it was started and finally died down,
most of us charred marshmallows; ate in silence.
then we sifted thru the cinders, trying to find
the cause, we saw our History must be the culprit.
we finished in silence, with a big wet cosmic kiss.
03/11/2010 Posted on 03/11/2010
Copyright © 2026 Charlie Morgan
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Joan Serratelli on 03/11/10 at 10:00 PM Charlie- everyone has questions. A very clever piece- good food for thought.Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it Thank you. Point well taken. |
| Posted by Glenn Currier on 03/13/10 at 04:54 PM I smile at all the places you took me with this one. My favorite line - which is so very profound (at least for me) is: "i, either have to slow-down or speed-up" S..t, how many times have I done one when I should've done the other? The last two stanzas were tres evocativa. I can almost smell the smoke and feel the cool night closing around me as a scootch closer to those embers. Thanks Chaz. |
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