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T. Kilgore Splake: two poems
COCAINE STOCKBOY
high school memories past
Friday night football cheers
weekend Saturday "keggers"
cap gown pomp circumstance
"rest we rust" class motto
varsity letter jacket
ragged stained
iga "lifer" unloading
stacking cartons
tagging soups soaps cereals
pregnant wife tiny apartment
nursing bruised black eye
"I love you" angers
infant daughter flu-dreck
diaper pail ammonia stink
nascar glories fading dreams
steady monotonous "rut"
tomorrows repeating yesterdays
deserted "bust" town
empty stores junk cars
jungle crabgrass growth
searching life from television
silent painful realization
"you don't exist"
piece of shit rusty tranny
ominous expensive whine
Friday payday Monday rent due
after work couple of "cold-uns"
good looking women
riding tall stools
"happy hour" loud juke
oregano pizza aromas
others having money
no kids debts worries
sad loser
boozy thought hitting the road
brave new world
beyond shit town limits
perpetual adolescent
grown too comfortable
sinking drowning slowly
claustrophobic nothingness
just too tired
for escape.
COCAINE LIBRARIAN
eat your veggies
stern severity
"good nazi
everything in its place"
rigid mentality
mother-wife sometime poet
chilly tightly wound coiffure
lacking emotional warmth
traprock "sunnydale" acres
BURBS house beautiful
garage sales "shoppertainments"
buying emotional reassurance
writing poems without soul
golden byzantiums
alabaster walls
close friends praisings
"I love it"
editors not publishing
denying growth fearing change
exploring the unexpected
chasing wildass dreams
envious coveting
"artistic" life
creative persona
she
will
never know.
T. Kilgore Splake, the bard of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is a prolific and widely published poet. His many chapbook collections include Pictured Rocks Poetry, Trout Dancing Sonata, Last Train Out, The Murderous Clown , and his most recent, Cocaine Poems.
