This Poem was Submitted By: John R. Birkbeck On Date: 2001-11-12 10:59:22 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Village Idiot

Many are the years I've been away from the old apple farm the women all sitting around bowls of snapbeans in the cool of evening Junes the big moon holding it steady up there and the riverboats doing their far-away mourns warts and freckles and stolen moments of jerking off were the only things to guarantee that we young boys would either go insanely compleat or grow up a dull normal but the mystery of it all is this: when did the horse apples lose the good smell-- and when was the day the windows of the old train depot got boarded up and the rail tracks all went to rust-- and when was it everybody went away to follow their far away dreams and me still here dreaming up at the clouds?

Copyright © November 2001 John R. Birkbeck

Additional Notes:
I've tried several endings to this poem, and yet I still cain't quite nail it down. Any suggestions? This is about the seventh time I've re-done this one, and yet it still leaves me uneasy. Also, I've made minimal use of punctuation, hoping that the rhythm would glide along, as if on the river.


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