Jokes

In cleaning out closets and dressers last week, I ran across my "joke book". This is not a book of amusing saying to provoke laughter, but a book I made of "poems" I wrote in my college years. I called them jokes, because I thought poetry was a joke. I thought when I had to write my first poem in high school, it was a joke. So, in writing my thought down in a non-traditional pattern of words, I deemed them "jokes". I thought I would start including one on this blog every so often. I don't claim to be a poet, or that this is even poetry or good or anything, but it is from me and I am sharing it with you.

joke i

THE MOON FALLS INTO THE OCEAN AS ICE WOULD
FALL INTO A GLASS OF WHISKEY
exploding.
BURNING THE FISH
OVER AN OPEN FIRE
hot.
SWEAT POURING FROM THE PORCELAIN SKIN
TURNING RED - DRIPPING BLOOD
death.
SLEEPING FOREVER - NEVER WAKING
LIGHTENING FLASHES - CLOUDS BURST OPEN
life.
SUDDENLY LIGHT FILLS EVERY SPACE
BLINDINGLY WAKING EVERYTHING
cold.
WHITE LIGHT COVERING THE EARTH
LIKE SNOW
evaporating.
THE EARTH AND EVERYTHING IN IT IS
SWALLOWED UP AS SOMEONE WOULD SWALLOW
THE LAST DROP IN A GLASS OF WHISKEY
peace.
tranquility.
nothing.
everything.
here.
gone.
lasting.
stopping.
forgetting.
remembering.
EXPLODING!