E·ratio

Issue 19

 

 

 

Two Poems

 

Raymond Farr

 

 

 

 

They Love a Good Lemon Poem

 

 

The epitome

Of amber caution lights

 

Just dangled there like daisies

Someone sd my poems had eyes

 

Like rambling steppes

& I sd they have no eyes

 

In hopeful words as

Soft & yellow as beams

 

Of summer sun

I sd they are here to observe

 

They love a good lemon poem

As they love their own

 

Bebop tapping foot, I sd

 

 

 

 

The Dumbkopf Machine

 

 

Mourning our skeleton

Of white picket fences

 

We negotiate

With language

 

Like people smoking purely

Out of outrage

 

It’s a perfectly normal thing

To breed vipers

 

Without meaning to

A poem may or may not be

 

The blank face of

Another ordinary day

 

Or the stolen identity

Of a lost horizon

 

Setting itself on fire

But where the dance

 

Of glare eludes

The already begun decay

 

Of color & shape

There is no such accuracy

 

We came into this life

Already knowing

 

Each curtained flinch

Of the dumbkopf machine

 

Is randomized

By circumstance

 

I merely denotes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raymond Farr is the author of Ecstatic/.of facts (Otoliths 2011), as well as big strange wall, Rien Ici and Writing What For? across the Mourning Sky.  His latest book Poetry in the Age of Zero Grav is due out in 2014.  His poems appear from time to time in Otoliths, Upstairs at Duroc, Cricket On Line Review, Indefinite Space, BlazeVox and West Wind Review.  He is editor of the experimental poetry zine Blue & Yellow Dog.

 

 


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