Words Burn
VLADIMIR: You should have been a poet.
ESTRAGON: I was. [Gesture towards his rags.]
Isn’t that obvious. [Silence.]
Waiting for Godot. Samuel Beckett
A whole ninety-eight cents
have recently been credited
to my low-tide bank account
from Yanks’ penny clicks
on my must-do-better lines
in newly-hewn sob stories
without no strummed blues
which now appear to appeal
to a slew of red neck readers
who enjoy my so inconstant
complaints – in blank verse –
about my current former wife
A true trailer park tale – he typed
We are all trash novel writers
Burkowski still raises a drink
to the 3-year-old’s who’ll never meet
because his words burn
like my continued condition
and we shall meet – Charles and me
downstage without direction