poetsday

the minutiae of Life & the two-minute poem

1

the relative pleasures of walking and art

artwork: is art work?
then is walking work?
so is walking to work work?
and is running hard work?
so why don't you wait for the bus?
is that work too? Yes,
but is it art?


2

things said

you said i was so shallow
that if i was the sea
you could walk across me
and not get your soles wet
and i said you were too sensitive
if you were a seismograph
you would register a
catastrophe every time i sighed.
that night under the covers
we put our theories to the test
knowing that a new sun must never
shine on an old argument.