[lit-ideas] Variations on a Theme by Geary

I was trying to find a scenario where the 
poetic  voice (for why should we
assume it's Geary, Wager?) ends up _shooting_ the
 advice-requester, but my
imagination is never that florid.

Try this. It was published in NYC Big City Lit
years ago, but it's a throwaway.


"Lines Not Written To Handel"

Shut up, says the door to the room.

Listen to how music has toned poems:
burbling spheres, effete lyres, defunct guitars,
that eternal loudmouth nightingale,
a wartime jukebox in its midtown dive,
elegant rag, diamond stylus of the dead.

Better to have engraved shotguns, carved looms,
Ripe grapes bursting against a virgin’s palette, so
If your chainsaw scrambles obbligato on greenwood,
Fire it up anyway. We no longer write for mellow
suites,
But always find our song in noise.



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