still life

[deyoub]

Still life
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son: why is there a dead fish on the table, Daddy?
me: do you want to help me?
son: OK. What do we do?
me: just sit and look at it.

I put an orange next to it.
Try the orange and the fish on a platter.
with an apple. put on sunglasses.
Owen leaves to find his shades.

son: is this going to be a good poem?
me: probably not
son: can I draw it?
me: OK.

Owen fingerpaints it. He could have used
the fins for brushes. He could have rolled the
apple in red. If this were a famous poem
his painting would be
would be...
? How about this: ?
Annie Leibowitz pimps the famous.

We smoke the fish in the smoker. under,
sliced oranges in the steambowl. apples too.
rotten celery. old lettuce.
In an hour
no neighbor can smell their fresh-cut grass.
Smoke on a spring day. Smoke above azalea.
dead fish on green.

____
deyoub

[Lee Tracy]

kick ass, nifty [pick your own superlative] very funny and real poem

deyoub wrote:

--
We love the things we love for what they are. -Robert Frost, 'Hyla
Brook'

new email address : ltr...@earthlink.net

[Amzug]

deyoub wrote:

Now I'm hungry. And I want a kid. A kid and a dead smoked fish. Is that
too much to ask???

(cool poem)

I am curious about your capitalization scheme. Why some sentences and not
others? Oh yeah...I just got it. Except for the sentences which
begin with Smoke. Now I'm confused again. Hungry and confused. Time for
dinner.