Friday, April 4, 2014

National Poetry Month Day 2: Mustache Lottery

Thought on poetry of the day: when I write, I want a hypothetical reader to be reminded as little as possible that they are reading a poem.

Mustache Lottery

Place this hair patch
A tricky proposition
It arrives
Whole pieces
Without ethics or position
It will make your sweater dirty
Long
Before it makes your meals a challenge
It makes children think of birds
and birds think of home
And stoners think of gnomes
and old baseball

His is uneven
He's not all there
A mustache, everyone gets
Except for its wearer

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