LUMMOX 3

Epitaph for

The lost poem

Which contained

Everything

And nothing.

Touched everyone, anyone

Who desired

The mystery of mysteries

Words of words, which brought forth

Language

Both blessed & cursed us

Married us, buried us and parted

The heavens and the

Deep blue seas

Made Houdini disappear

And broke the sole of

Khrushchev’s soul

Shot Kennedy

And then shot a rocket

To the moon

Sold us, indiscriminate

Commanded us to war and glory

And holocaust – unimagined imagination

The scavengers & architects, history

Fighting for space apocalyptic

Down on Wall Street and in the Silicone Valley

Stages of poetry and stages

Of time living, breathing & dying

On the battlefields

Of life.

The Poem,

Too early

Too late

Too bad

The lost poem

Which contained

Nothing and everything

Everything and nothing

At all.

You left it home on the

Kitchen table where your children

Drew on it

In crayon

It is just as well.

~ R.M.