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The Poet’s Monkey Ears

Andrew H. Oerke

The ears grow longer and broader listening
with all their might, in the cheap-rent room a rubble
of revisions and old versions, a veritable junkyard
of verbal pipes, busted images n idioms
squashed into paper fists with no bodies, yet still clutching
their clichés for dear life, subtracting some things
to less than zero and then some, and the T’s crossing
themselves like monks, not thresholds, the whole blessed
alphabet giving up the ghost from time to time
on the old oaken floor.
Then “I rise in flames
like the Phoenix,” cries the Muse and the ears perk up
and the tongue is filled with Pentecostal fire
n crackles away like Chinese New Year’s in a daisy
chain of sparkling, snapping fuses for God’s sake
and the sake of other ears that may not care for sounds at all.
Then the host of this celebration of noise leaves
the studio of the mind as quickly as the Muse came,
saying, “Th-th-that’s all Folks; exit stage left.”
Fade out; wipe it away; wap-wap-wap, the end of the most real reel.

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