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Famous

Wayne F. Burke

for M.R.

I asked the famous poet to read my poems
and he did
and then
arranged to meet me
in the cafeteria
where we sat in a booth
across from one another
and he looked down at my manuscript as
he spoke,
his black bangs over-hung his
eyes, and he never looked up
not once
until the very end
and I wished he would look back down then
because
something in his eyes,
some kind of anguish
I could not bear to look at...
He was known as the poet of loneliness and
was married to the poetess of bereavement.
Before leaving, I asked what he really thought of
my things and he said
well
they are all on the surface
no dept to them
read other things beside literature, he suggested
like “Kramer’s book on aesthetics.”
I thanked him and he went away.
I was the poet of surfaceness.

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