I like you if
you’ll like me
and then we can all
like each other
and there will be
peace in the world
and we can Twitter
with the birds
If there were a button for “Launch”
would someone press it?
in a New York
minute.
David Michael Jackson
Why I Should Poem
Why I Should
Because I still breathe
because I have something to say
even
if it is only me
Even if it’s only me
saying it to
me
Because the sun came up and the rivers flowed
and if feels good to say so
because it’s the end of a year
a new year and
and it felt good to say so
because I’m a crazy fool
who will spend his last penny
making something he likes
even if others throw it away
even if it rots in the back of an unknown book
even if it is forever an unknown song
even if it rots in a basement
so I will grab another handful
of colored sand
for whose works
are not
swept
away?
Why Should I Poem
Why Should I
There are two points in every life
that is in the artist life
the point where the painting and words and music
and the person
are asking why
with a fire unlike any fire
and a point
where the artist or writer or musician
and person
is asking
why should I?
why should I?
I beat my primordial head
on this stone in this cave
why am I not hunting the elk
instead of scratching with this
blunt burnt stick
until my hands are worn
and I beat on this stone with these hands
and this stick.
“Oh you have drawn the elk
we saw him this morning
but wasn’t his leg longer
and his horn had more points.”
what I saw
what I saw
what I saw
I do not understand
I cannot understand
Why should I?
david michael jackson
Maybe if you just express those moments they won’t stand in the way of the bigger why. Maybe. We’ll see.
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