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RICHARD
HEMMINGS
Richard Hemmings has been writing poetry for thirty years and has been published in
Nimbus, Mad Poets Review, Medicinal Purposes and other publications.
His on-line appearances include Shirazad, Poetz and RogueScholars. He has taken first, second and third places, respectively in the 2002
-04 Hanover Poets' Contest, and second place in the Connecticut
state-wide poetry contest in 2003. He is a philatelic lot-writer, who sometimes works in Danbury Connecticut, while living in Stewartstown Pennsylvania; which means he may be able to pass himself off as an out-of-town writer wherever he goes.
entering a train station with a mouth full of Novacaine
masked
harsh music
random asteroid null
gravity slit sneakers
rubber gloved over
elastic submissive
subversive clap
his maleness the only
denominator for a shot
playbill neutral smile caught
in a nothing concrete
stacatto click on metal plastic
carded a woman turns to
her gray -haired man links
hands flee towards
the light of a hard tomorrow.
ABC Poem
All broken, corrupt,
damaged, even feral,
gods hold impotent
justice knowingly limp.
Maybe nothing orders
potent quixotic ringleaders,
sociopathically torturing
uneducated voters who
xerox yearly zombies.
Gutenberg
bankrupt civilization
the course ran from the then
to the now that is yesterday
in a blink a blank slate a book
a bible copper and brass
the word became all words
engraved images of Ceasar banknotes
chalkboards typewriters linotypes
satellite transmissions
the Internet
fade back to ebony
fade back to nothing
a stick in Sudanese silicon sand
China paints the silk
and you Johannes
somehow
I think even Death is just
(a little bit)
afraid of you
copyright © Richard Hemmings
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