Wilyem Clark : Writing

The Kids Next Door

The Kids Next Door

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


They race, they race, Like meteors launched from a cavernous place; Across the lawn, across the street-- No one else here has fleeter feet! Here c..
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A Poem by Wilyem Clark


Perfection lasts only as long As the breeze allows you to have it. Arriving on a whim, Too soon it wafts away. A greediness arises That surpasses..
VD

VD

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


Monsieur is drawing on the window: Hot pink hearts and lipstick kisses, With red Da Hong Pao burning through. The message board chants LO E, LO E, ..
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A Poem by Wilyem Clark


To hell with pleasure, to hell with pain, To hell with getting soaked in the rain. To hell with deleterious folk Who crab and carp, then say it's a..
Cold Stretch

Cold Stretch

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


There's a breeze slicing through This suburban canyon, And the sun is too hazy To warm the flesh. My gloves are ratty-- The stitches are loosenin..
Bereavement

Bereavement

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


I never got the chance to meet The master before he passed away. Should I regret A thing that was impossible, given That I am a nothing, a transpar..
Pluto

Pluto

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


I don't mind the demotion. I admit I'm the oddball With the cockamoon orbit, Sole ecliptical scoffer And freak of the System; But I like my condi..
Thick and Thin

Thick and Thin

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


Those friends who second-fiddled you For years as you sat rigidly And martyr-like, while staying mum, Or saying, "That's all right by me"; Those i..
I Have Adventures

I Have Adventures

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


Not grand or glorious, But mostly anonymous And always autonomous In a late afternoon. These sideline activities Engage my proclivities, Overrid..
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A Poem by Wilyem Clark


The only love that I can give Is plastic, artificial, Thin as cardboard, bloodless, pale, And borderline superficial. You stand in nakedness and..