Tuesday, May 15, 2018

David Alpaugh, Twilight Time


Man of La Muncha, oil on troubled waters, by Don Kee Otee




Twilight Time, found poem inspired by those brilliant talk show guests on network and cable tv


at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of the day at the end of this day at the end of all the butt-ends of my days and ways head spinning like The Fool on the Hill mouth screaming like that Man of La Muncha over troubled waters as the angry sun goes down behind us at the end of the day at the end of every bloody day . . .


—David Alpaugh