This Poem Is Not for Poets
This poem
is not for poets.
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Katherine’s Coffeehouse
Why (Again) I Will Not Burn the Flag
It begins with, “Don’t you believe in company loyalty?”
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Working Order
We clutch a bit
now for sleep
through the night,
choose sharper tipped
verbs, phrases,
questions of status
quo, but are handed
cliches
Why I Will Not Burn the Flag – Author’s Note on 4th of July
It’s complicated, really, it began so long ago,
while bent over a bin of gourmet ice cream, scooping
it out for a customer: “Don’t you believe in company
loyalty?” And I had to tell him, no. “I am not loyal
to groups,” I said. “I am loyal to people.”
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