Chapbook Update 12: Elizabeth S Wolf
This is from the chapbook Using An Ink Pen To Escape My Cage, written by Jon Albert Kaspar. Mr. Kaspar resides in Virginia. I loved this collection. A little bit Beat, a little bit Dylan, allusions flying out in all directions. This poem travels to the future, through history, and ends right in your lap.
Probably
I write poetry because
Of an air-conditioner
I started writing because
Of visual aesthetics
I will continue writing to
Change your world
To change the world of
The archeologist
Who discovers my writings
Buried under the nuclear waste
Of what was once your house
They’ll think these writings
Are scripture
My poetry book your bible
It would be a pop-up
Future experience
Just write
Poetry starts in your stomach
Go over a waterfall in your poetry book
Tell Dr. Mengele poetry is your twin
When we’re done entertaining
Go on a hunger strike to oppose hunger strikes
We’ll write poetry in their blood
If you asked whose
Than probably yours.