rooms for rentA Poem by jacob erin-cilbertoInspired by richieb's poem "Look up to the Sky, Jack Kerouac"
any of
the old Beats who are left have nose hairs
stretching to the page and arthritic poetic
fingers pushing the century mark they read old poems left
in their attic minds
trying from memory, but failing to find
sense of the words they cared so much about when a time was that
some actually listened,
now everyone just talks
and rants and promotes his or her
own wounds bleeding profusely from
the mouth or the page,
but no one reads anymore they just drive past the
nursing homes riddled with disinterest spilling sonnet sodas on
concrete hearts
devastation in numbers young poets write
graffiti prose against a wind of change
sniffing at the
breeze, trying to imagine how the Beats ever found any rhythm at all....
erin-cilberto 11/27/16 © 2016 jacob erin-cilbertoReviews
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Added on November 29, 2016Last Updated on November 29, 2016 Authorjacob erin-cilbertoCarbondale, ILAboutOriginally from Bronx, NY, I live in Carbondale, Illinois...teach English at a community college and have been writing and publishing poetry since 1970. I am here to read for inspiration from other po.. more..Writing
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