"Memphis Beat..." Poem

Remembered and brought to life during a second of "Poetic Beauty's" thoughts

"Memphis Beat..."

I've been in Bars and watched and listened
to life passing by... both sides of the counter...
what is and wasn't and so many wanna bees' never-were's.

Life tastes more sharply
when you stand on the blisters
of all the pavements you've wandered.

R & B isn't blue - its red and rare,
raw as hell... charged with clues
only bought by life and its passing
and grasping and wish-full-wanting...
dirt-gound-life-bound-heart-twisted
and chewn, spit out deep-far-and-hard
at a moon that cares less than the damn eyes
damned eyes - crying so hard a breath away...

...and the packs of the wanderers
flowing and floating... I's and pairs-of-more-just-I's 
and some-even-paired, thronged and desperate triplets
tripping-yet-despaired in pair-less gatherings...
quart-lets, stare-lets, bare-lets, lost-lets
moving and swaying to a WANTING heat.

All them glasses sweating - leaking tears to bartops
tabletops echoing sympathetic wheres...
bar-rags wiping lives and the living away and away
shot-by-shot taken, heads and existence sinking
farther and further and ever beyond mere -
fingertips reaching - reaching shaking...
to empty dim-lit darknesses - racked and wracked
as laugher - so false even god joins in.
We/they/I share, sit - hoping with caught breaths
wanting in cacaphony-phonic silence as frozen moments
swirl, dip,and sway - and finding nothings -
no ones - chances slipping by-and-by-and-by

and its never your heart
wanted - just wanting and its only... silence inside
silence and waiting and watching -
life... another eternity... passing by.

And the beat-beat-beat
beat
Beat
BEAT
lives on...

Chris

 

Author's Note

..."strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words... killing me softly..." a helluva song that

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Reviews

[Judy Ponceby]

I say, I like. Your words give a rhythm to life observed and lived as it goes about being life. Wonderful write.

[M.D]

English is very strong x.x,
but that makes me come back... with more review...