- clamoring
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offbeatjim- November 28th, 2010
emptying casino
ashtrays
all night
& sweeping trash off the floors
the high-class women heading toward
the gambling tables
ignore me
so do the coupon tourists rushing off
the excursion bus
clamoring
to beat
each other
to the slot machines
-- Jim Wittenberg
11/28/2010
- imagination
-
- offbeatjim
- August 21st, 2010
you imagined
you slapped me
& my cheek felt the pain
you imagined
I was going to fall
off my bike
and I’m still nursing
a bruise on my knee
you imagined
you & me
together
forever
but it hasn’t happened
though I do feel
the allure
you have imagined
so many things
concerning the two of us
that I feel
I need to say
stop it! stop it now!
get a hobby
or something
and keep me out
of your imagination
-- Jim Wittenberg
8/21/2010
- tablecloth
-
- offbeatjim
- August 6th, 2010
the man with the moose head
growing from
his
neck
is doodling
on the tablecloth
I’d ask him
to stop
but his doodles
are better than the poems
I’m writing on the floor
-- Jim Wittenberg
8/6/2010
- how many pieces?
-
- offbeatjim
- August 6th, 2010
pieces of my brain
drop
thru cracks in my skull
& people pick up these pieces
of my brain
trying to hand them back to me
but I refuse to take them
I don’t know what these things
are that people
are handing to me
I don’t know that they are pieces
of
my
brain
that have dropped thru
cracks in my skull
and I refuse to take these things
people are handing to me
do you take things that people
hand to you
without asking questions?
yes?
then maybe I should ask you
how many pieces
of
your
brain
have dropped
thru cracks in your
skull?
-- Jim Wittenberg
8/6/2010
- stuffed toys
-
- offbeatjim
- July 24th, 2010
my dog barks at a row
of stuffed toys someone placed
along the fence
I tell him to shush
I’m ambivalent about everything
including your religion
get off my front porch
-- Jim Wittenberg
7/24/2010
- chasm
-
- offbeatjim
- July 4th, 2010
drained
dis
tance
in
sur
moun
table
this chasm
be
tween
us
-- Jim Wittenberg
7/4/2010
- odd
-
- offbeatjim
- July 4th, 2010
- restless
these memories
I’ve wrapped around
myself
like a blanket
are cold
& then I think
these memories
aren’t
mine
but who slipped thru
the window
of my
thoughts
to replace
the ones that
were
mine?
the rest of the day
I’m
baffled
and I ponder
will the thief return?
-- Jim Wittenberg
7/4/2010
- a bad day for success
-
- offbeatjim
- June 18th, 2010
- thirsty
postcard
art
down the stairs
running, waving the piece signed
by him above his head
shouting
the assassin’s shot shattering his skull
no one
caring
he’s a potential
winner
-- Jim Wittenberg
6/18/2010
- disturbance
-
- offbeatjim
- June 16th, 2010
tired
above
as
below
this sameness is disturbed
in life’s flow
love
the disturbance
-- Jim Wittenberg
6/16/2010
- three times
-
- offbeatjim
- June 14th, 2010
three times
he rode his bicycle
by the bloated cat
& the third time
he imagined it
bursting
spewing maggots
everywhere
how would he
explain the way
his clothing
smelled?
-- Jim Wittenberg
6/14/2010
