Moon Rock

Copyright 2025 by Michael Walker


I remember

When they brought a moon rock

To Newark Ohio

A tiny bit of regolith

Captured

By Neil and Buzz

They brought that “miracle”

To the

Newark Advocate

Our downtown

Newspaper

There was a line

All the way around the block

To see this chip

Enclosed

In a square of plexiglass

A pebble

Like any other

On...
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Delmore Schwartz

Copyright 2025 by Michael Walker


He spent his last days

In the Chelsea Hotel

Reading Dostoevsky

Relentlessly

Ruminating in the

Early

Morning

About

The glory

And slippage

Of his

Days…

He spent his last days

Posthumously

His body not identified

For two

Fucking

Days…

He kept waiting waiting

In those last

Hours

Waiting

For the fountains

To run

And

Overflow

Again…

I once...
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henrythevamp:
A poem about a poet I admire who died after struggles with alcohol and mental illness.