Deborah Bogen: This Poet’s Occasional Alternative
after the great Grace Paley
to mark these dark and dangerous times
I was going to write a poem
I made a call instead it took
about the same amount of time
of course the call was a done
deal but like a poem had some
distance to go, through telephone
wires & memo pads to politicians
amidst much crumpled paper
the call already had a talking
mumbling audience among adolescent
aides and maybe even senators
on the Senate floor
everybody should like this call
it will have issues and arguments
and complaints in it many friends
will say why in the world did you
make only one
this does not happen with poems
because of unreportable
sadnesses I decided to
settle this morning for calling
a politician I may have
to wait a week a year a
generation for the right one
to finally come along
Copyright 2017 Deborah Bogen
I get this. Good work. Keep on calling and writing poems….
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