Just a Moment
All there is
Just a moment
Then another
Hot coffee
Lukewarm
And a quiet room
Filled
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S Fitts's micropoetry
Writer, punk musician; author of Bleeding Gut Blues, keyboardist for Drunk Robb and the Shots. Currently seeking an agent for my second novel and working on a third. I also write poems. Some of them are short.
Heart of the Beast
Kill the phone
Eat the answering machine
Devour the heart
To gain its esteem
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Untitled
I’ve seen morality
Treated as a hobby
A passing phase to
Occupy the body
Between beatings
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S Fitts
You Blame the Innocent
So meaningless
That decade
So quickly relegated
To the heap
Every care taken
In vain
You blame the innocent
And continue
To forget
My name.
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Psychedelic sunsets
Psychedelic sunsets
Urge the Earth
To write its epitaph:
“Clever humanity,
My darker half,
In twilight, I know
The last laugh.”
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Tuesday
Woke to the tinkle
Of hammers on strings
Walked in the rain
Chose the gutter
Over mud
Childhood awe
Nearly caused a
Seizure
A perfect
Day
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Mosquito Mojito
Two mosquitoes
Shared a mojito
From the knee
Of a tipsy tourist
Fluttering cockeyed
Buzzed by the banquet
Their next round
An ankle colada
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Living Relic
The forlorn relic
Still breathing
Writes memoirs spanning
Decades
Listing trysts
Of legend
On a ledger pad
In an empty room
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The Crumbling Tower
Frail as a flower
This crumbling tower
Its foundation weak
For reasons oblique
As its posture.
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The DOMA Opinion
Jostled by the moment
The cynic blinked
As unexpected respect
Danced lightly
Through synapses taught
To expect
Nothing
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