Seven of the Ten Poems Thomas L Vaultonburg Promised To Write On May 27, 20111

A Poem I Also Title "The Donner Party"

After an Evening of Reading Richard

Brautigan's Poetry

"What's for dinner?"

"You."

"No, I meant what's

For breakfast."

Avocation

since you never

had time

to behold

this particular

downspout

I went ahead

and did it

for you.

Be Careful

Closing the door

Behind you

The words

You longed for

All night

Ricocheted off the wall

And fell

In a dusty corner

Where thay can

Do no harm.

Day 12,562

The Cleveland Indians

Played well into the night

Against the Texas Rangers.

My game was cancelled.

Escalator

The old regard the

Escalator's efforts

With disdain.

No one meets them

At the top.

I'm Not

writing the poem

titled

"personae vitae"

no one

wanted it.

Jack

He wants to fly

To Jupiter

He starts by crashing

To Earth

Now he's

Got it.

December 12, 2012 update: Interesting to see these poems again. I had a lot more late night to work with when I first moved into this apartment. These were all poems inspired by Richard Brautigan and written in the same day just as an exercise to get myself writing. Also, I see there are only four poems here. Funny. 

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