Tuesday, December 04, 2012

November Poem: Temporary Bind

I was reading some Lawrence Ferlinghetti poems when I wrote this  ... it shows (but I don't think he has ever written in hay(na)ku form).

A Tower Books
bookmark? Boy!
That
 

goes back quite
a way --
along 


with all the 
other landmarks
no 


longer with us 
including Tower
Records, 


Tower of Shoes 
and the
Twin 


Towers.  Nothing lasts 
it seems
not 


even the Sphinx 
whose face
is 


slowly being erased.
Even this
room 


will be gone 
someday certainly
but


I won't be 
around to
see 


that or at 
least I
hope 


not. Too much 
has disappeared
already 


and it kind of
makes you 

wonder 

but not really 
for very 
long.

© Bob Loomis
09-26-2012

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