Monday, October 14, 2013

Peter Paul Van Camp - 1983


COMPARE AND CONTRAST
Calvin bellows
standing in a sea of summer stanzas
waiting to be written
while everyone else screams for
DAIRY PRODUCTS
and the slight
bearded
bow-tied
man on stage knows they want
“A Milkman at Heart”
round rims glinting below  slicked 19th C. hair 

Calvin knows it’s a losing battle
but this is part of our ritual here
in this field transformed into
small city and then poet begins his
milk masterpiece it’s
like Homer reciting the Iliad
but not much

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