April 2023
Author's Note: The old monk continues apace, as sassy as ever. You might wonder if these are poems. I do. Yet it's not my business to tell the old monk what's what, so this is what we get.
Three Poems from the Old Monk
When you're hired to
walk down the street,
you can't just
walk down the street,
the actor told
the old monk.
That's natural law,
the old monk responded.
You're supposed to
actual natural
when it's not.
~
Many of the conventions
of poetry relate to our physical bodies,
the old monk told the poet,
our breath,
the need to stamp our feet,
our wanting to sing.
~
I find beauty
in
the squareness
of
one thing
to
another,
the old monk
admitted.
~
©2023 Tom Montag
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