Transparent Words - Poetry

 
Poem
 
By Duane Locke
 
IN A POSTMODERN MOOD
 
Belief,
Unbelief,
To be brief,
Crawl
Like rain, or like a drugged brain.
 
Life is as useless as an unopened umbrella
In Umbria
During stormy weather.
 
Stormy weather, but we are not together.
You were playing a saxophone in Bavaria.
I was playing solitaire on the steps of the Cologne cathedral.
Neo Nazis were drinking Rhine wine and whining about lost --swastikas.
 
Next when again we have separate vacations, we'll be tourist in Italy,
Because Italians cannot remember Mussolini,
Even if they wear black shirts, silk, on the Via Veneto.
It is the Brunello, the Chianti
That excites such forgetfulness.
 
I still wish I had an umbrella when it is stormy weather.
I wish I had you who are playing a saxophone in Bavaria
When it is stormy weather.

 

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