Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Dear David’ by Matthew Burgess with @knoxmomi_365

This morning I looked

for your book online

and almost bought it

from the evil giant

but balked. Instead

I wrote a poem in bed

about a faux-leopard

jacket while drinking

coffee from a Bette

Midler mug. Marcel

says when he catches

himself self-censoring

he knows to add it

anyway. Anyway

I scrambled eggs

before rearranging

my book shelves,

extracting the ones

I can live without.

Those I put in a box

for prisoners (who

want dictionaries

and classic fiction,

the website says)

and later the buyer

in Red Hook took

a towering stack

for a seventeen buck

credit. I skimmed

the spines and there

you were! Like new!

On the cover in blue

pants, a violet plaid

shirt, surrounded by

bright particulars!

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