ACCIDENTAL POEM

Sometimes tinkering with a watch that already works

is such a waste of time

as if you could formulate some kind of poetic recipe

insert irony here pathos over there

Crap I didn't even realize the pun in the first statement

How do you evaluate an accidental witticism?

Throw enough mud against the wall and it will stick

and who the hell is going to read this anyway?

Poem For Gary

I envison Introne skulking in the back alleys of time kicking the proverbial

garbage cans of despair flailing wildly at dangling participles who never met a comma he liked

eschewing Fitzgerald chewing on the obtuse spitting out refuse

coy obfuscating in an interview mercurial taking mundane and creating a history lesson

about some damn bridge in NYC

This guy came out of left field as I remember him in Clark, NJ I treaded lightly sizing him up

is he the genuine article will he navigate me through everyone else's bad poetry

including mine

you kidding

this guy didn't even need a compass