A Tribute Two Lost Poems

A Tribute Two Lost Poems

A Poem by Matthew Bass

The best poems 
are forgotten 
before they´ve 
been written. 
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
II 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
I crawled out of bed 
with the memory 
of two vague 
masterpieces 
lost in the untraceable steps 
of a dream´s footprints 
Between the snap of a finger 
of a drunken morning 
(seperated) 
and Triskels Tavern. 
  
Fragments of sweat-stained air 
guitar strings, notebooks 
and prose-like voices 
choking every last person 
as it bled and squeezed 
through every swirling nook. 
  
  
Now as the sun rises 
I reach for you, frantically 
somewhere within an arms length 
of my out-stretched hands 
in the abstract illusion 
driving me forward. 
  
But, I fall back 
into a dirty pillow 
with a throat full of cotton, 
a headache, resigned pain 
and the epitaph of two lost poems 
that made me think about you.

© 2012 Matthew Bass


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Matthew Bass
Matthew Bass

St. Louis, MO



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