30 Day Poetry Challenge - Day Eight

Day Eight - Find a short poem (one page or less) that you love. Cross out every fourth word. Replace the crossed out words with your own choices.


Radio on the Fritz

(Adapted from Frank Ohara’s “Radio”  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/87/6#!/20585994/0 )

Why do you hum such dreary music
every Saturday afternoon, when starved
mortally tired I twitch for a little
fix of immortal energy?
                                                Half
week long while ghosts trudge fatiguingly
from alcove to desk in Jimi’s museum
you spill howling miracles of Grieg
rocking Honegger on shut-ins.
                                    Should I not
shut up too, and after my week
of work must I deserve Prokofieff?

Damn, I have my contemptible de Kooning
to caterwaul to. I think thrash has an orange
rage in it, more of the ear can bleed.