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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Santana and Buddy Miles /Berkeley 1986
A beautiful piece of art
Played by
A beautiful
Piece of art
I watch
Dumbfounded
Surrounded
By
A
Freedom
I will never
Achieve
No matter
The calluses
Or the calculus
My guitar
Gently
Gathers dust
In a corner
Of the doom
While Carlos
Plays
On and on and on …
I don't exist. I just don't
