I rediscovered this poem I wrote in 1989 during my years with Joe Stanco’s Poetry Circle.  (I edited it a little, very little, because I can’t stop myself.) Joe’s Circle included the well-known poet, Tim Seibles, as well as VP Crowe, Amy “Moonlady” Martin, Gordon Hilgers, Jas (James) Mardis, and Sam Modica. Nice crowd to learn from.

Of all my performances of (what was almost unanimously terrible) poetry, this was the one that actually made people stand up and cheer. It may not have been great word art, but it had a message people could get behind.

I’m still thrilled by most of it, too.

I used Adobe Firefly to generate the illustration.