POETRY

I wrote you poetry
Is it crumbled in your hand
Did you swallow a page for me
Is my heart in your garbage can

Did you call it raw despair
Did you call it desperation
Did you tell your friends I'm twisted
Then show them my creation

Did you pass around my bleeding heart
Between beers and smoke and cussing
Did your buddies toast the poet's ghost
Who wrote a page of nothing

I wrote you poetry
Did you fold it like a child
Did you make a paper airplane
Then fly it for a while

Did you carve another notch
Did you laugh untill it hurt
Did you fly me out the window
And land me in the dirt

                       ‘96