Always Fun

Always fun to witness
a frank poetry throwdown.

Goes back to Whitman
and the absinthe-swilling ass-fuckers in Paris

with a touch of Thomas Hardy’s brutality
and then the entire 20th century

–hipsters versus the suits–
pencils and then the keypads

blinking out secret sadnesses
and begging for love.

2010

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wise heads

wise heads suggest

balance, maturity,

forgiveness where

i find betrayal.

maybe violence

will make me whole.

silly since cracked

limbs barely

carry me along,

vision failing

hearing less, less,

flab where muscle was

heartbroken yet, 

ignoring wise heads

old friends, barely

wondering, walk away

Copyright 2012 by Patrick O'Hayer

transit of venus

old old friend

with plush equipage

scales heights to

view the rarest

cosmic event

a black dot

snailing across

the white-hot disc

used in olden time

to triangulate

the parallax of

the human heart

Copyright 2012 by Patrick O'Hayer