Preface for a Day
--for Marc Kockinos

I saw the other side of the paper
Singing away a silence;
Managed to make a memory
Before the promise faded.

I.
He’s going to hit me up
For a couple bucks
Asking for more
When I can’t afford to give him anything,
But I have to give him something
‘cause he always has
Less than I—
It has to be that way.

II.
I take a picture
Of the couple from Rome—
The man almost
More beautiful.

Peter, I hope you have a great turnout for your reading tomorrow.

Les

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Thanks, Les...I get twenty minutes and a pair of poets called, Lunation, gets the other forty. the theme is 'nature,' so I am going to read the twenty butterfly poems I wrote with Khalida a long time ago.

Peter