Transcript Your Poem, Man… - Harrell Land Home

by Edward Lueders
This is a warm up for your box of words
and further wordplay, imagination,
and writing…language arts!
Unless there’s one thing seen
Suddenly against another—
a parsnip
Sprouting for a president, or
Hailstones melting in an ashtray
Nothing really happens.
It takes
Surprise and wild connections,
Doesn’t it?
A walrus chewing
On a ballpoint pen.
Two blue tailLights on Tyrannosaurs Rex.
Green
Cheese teeth.
Maybe what we wanted
Least. Or most.
Some unexpected
Pleats. Words that never knew
Eachother til right now.
Plug us
Into the wrong socket and see
What blows—or what lights up.
Try
Untried
Circuitry,
New
Fuses
Tell it like it never really was,
Man,
And maybe we can see it
Like it is.