And in this corner;
It’s the hollow man &
The drunken muse
And that song
That goes like this’
As the rain came down
Upon the city streets & poets, sonnets
And upon all of the earth
As If Mozart had just
Written it all for you
On a Saturday night
Himself
[And In Parenthesis]
The next round begins,
And they ring the bell
It’s the ghost in the machine
And all the silences in-between
Lifetimes.
Lovers
And friends
And strangers
And there’s a savior on every block
Just waiting for you with
The answer in their hands
Saying;
I’m alone in the dark
Without the directions home
So there,
Do you see?
All the desolate and the
Lost, the poor, and the rich
Who still ignore them,
See the universe
In vibrant words
And they just ignore you
Still.
As you,
Wordsmith of
The angry masses
Can only scream
Fuck you!
To Thine
Own Self
Be True
Be True.
And in this corner
It’s the serpent’s coil
And the soul of the dragon,
This world a weeping failure
In thy form, and in thy sight
As they pour more champagne
Half full into the glass
And it’s still the same damn song that goes like this,
As they lit our cigarettes with dollar bills
As all the children starved to death
In Shitsville & Manhattan,
And in the U. S. of A. America
Where all the rains came down
A hard rain still
Falling In buckets, sonnets & poems
That changed nothing
And never will
Because no one even
Bothered to ever
Read the words or
The writing on the wall
To see.
___________
~ R.M. Engelhardt
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R.M. Engelhardt is a poet, writer and author who over the last two decades has published over 16 books of poetry including "Nod" "Logos" "Alchemy" & "The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt. The founder of the Upstate NY organization Albany Poets & the Annual Poetry Celebration The Albany Word Fest he has through his ideas & visions helped to contribute a large amount of advocacy and creativity to the Spoken Word~Poetry Capital District scene and is the former host of the long running readings Vox, Propaganda, Listen & currently is creating a new resurrection of one of the area's most well known open mics for poetry and spoken word THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT in Troy, NY held on the last Wednesday evening of each month at the incredible nightclub/speak easy bar THE BERLIN IN TROY NY. His writing has also been published by many journals such as The Rye Whiskey Review, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, The Hobo Camp Review, Full of Crow, on the Outlaw Poetry Network & in many many others.
Look for his books "WHERE THE PEOPLE'S VISION PERISHES 2020" "DARK LANDS (2019 on LuLu, Amazon & At Barnes and Noble) The Resurrection Waltz, 2012 ( Infinity Press) & "COFFEE ASS BLUES & OTHER POEMS" ( 2018 Alien Buddha Press 2018) " DarkLands" 2019 & "Where There Is No Vision" 2020 and his new books, "WE RISE LIKE SMOKE" (2021) & Of Spirit, Ash & Bone (2022) all available on Amazon.com
He is also the Editor of the small independent poetry press DeadMansPressInk.
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