April 2022
Bio Note: I'm a middlewestern poet who can sometimes assume other personae. In the current incarnation, that's "the old monk," who have given us now, by rough count, about 5000 quips, poems, and "folk sayings." The end is not yet in sight.
from
The Old Monk Poems
You've got a good line going
when you hear the sound of
many horses running,
the old monk told the poet.
~
Poetry is poetry.
You can't make it a business,
the old monk said.
~
Sometimes I have to
write in my notebook
This Page Intentionally
Left Blank,
the old monk told
the poet.
~
©2022 Tom Montag
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