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Leather to the Corinthians
by Tom Lucas
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Teflon Girl
Flashback Fridays! I’m very much enjoying ruffling through the old crate of notebooks. These poems are better than a journal. Less minutiae, more emotional memory. This one goes back to late undergrad and speaks of a young man who is having a hard time wrangling someone he cares about. Poor guy.
Teflon Girl
My Teflon girl
So slick and unable to wrangle
How did you get so slippery
So slick and beyond my grip
Maybe I should scrub your surface down
With harsh abrasives
Pocked and scarred it would be
So easy to get into the cracks
I don’t want to wear you down
I adore your smooth surface
I want to preserve it
So I may enjoy it forever
I know how to treat you
But I cannot even get a hold
And because of your nature
You could not help if you tried
I hope my will is strong
And my eyes accurate
So that I can catch you at
The perfect moment
Or watch you slip away for good.
Hearts and Minds
Flashback Fridays!
This is a very old piece, I think I was around 18 at the time. I was making an attempt at addressing the nature of conflict. It’s interesting, but I don’t think it has much of a punch to it.
It’s the one thing that
Will make everything else
Fall down and beg
You can’t stop it
It’s beyond your defenses
And inside your walls
Mano a mano
Within your shadow primitive
Dark no light
Ethics no code
War no righteousness
Infinity
Why bask in nothing
When more fights remain
Mercenary might
Opportunity for lasting treaties
Broken like walls
Knowledge is unimportant
Intuition without wisdom
Fight without reason
Loyalty with no foundation
The horn cries assembly
And the fighters make formation
Obedience unquestioned
There is no time
Over the trench
Waves like the ocean
Strangely natural
No furtive glances
No moment of doubt
Eyes fixated on fate
Decided by equals
Skilled or armed by luck.
Faceless statistic
Unacknowledged
Unknown
Soldier ants
Take and lose leaves
By nature’s plan
Alone.
Book Signing – June 8 – Boca Raton, FL
I’ll be heading down to the Boca Raton area for a Leather to the Corinthians book signing on June 8. Come join me at Docking Bay 94 Comics and Games from 3-6pm.
On a personal note, I spent 5 years teaching at West Boca Raton HS so I’m really looking forward to seeing some of my old students and colleagues. Hope to see you there as well.
Party of the Year
Flashback fridays…I think I was tired of the social scene at the time. Ah, college.
I can bring only a
Silent gasp
To this party
Volume of madness
Levels of excess
Devoid of substance
This gathering of mistakes
Which beg only
Give it give it
What is temporary
Is of the most strength
Weakness of the fleeting
Here for the moment
On standby for ruin
By your hands
All that was ever wanted
Was love but the party
Was about something else
Fuck the guests
They were fools
To begin with.
