{"id":2519,"date":"2014-04-22T22:32:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T22:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=2519"},"modified":"2014-04-22T22:32:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T22:32:40","slug":"matthewsradeja414","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/matthewsradeja414\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Sradeja, April 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are not Merely Words<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are not merely words
\nsuch a Saturday misunderstanding.
\nThe focus of telescopes on distant worlds
\ntells us as much as a scoop of sand
\nstarving for a beach.<\/p>\n

A tall cool drink stood
\non the inspection table
\ninsulated from the summer heat.<\/p>\n

I melted toward it and sweat and shit
\nmoved a tick of the second hand
\nthe clock, the boss, and
\nthe crew all around it,
\ntook notice of much less.<\/p>\n

Keep up now as I recall it
\nmany gods have crumbled
\nfrom our thoughts
\nand prayers as roman columns
\ncrumbled
\nsuch are the ruins of progress.<\/p>\n

In any case
\nAtlas can be outdone by a bra
\nholding up two lovely globes.
\nI should just stick with what I know
\nand leave the legends alone.
\nSo much is unconcerned with this work.<\/p>\n

Now forging presses rise and crash down
\nat a rate of 14 parts a minute
\napproximately far more numerous than
\nthe count of empires come and gone.
\nYet, a pittance of parts piling up
\nwhen compared to the collective universe.<\/p>\n

Tonnage as it is adds up
\nnot as fast as light but illuminated by it
\nsuch is the shimmer of steel
\nto stay lost in the commotion
\nof mass production.
\n\u201cWe hit steel hard every day!\u201d
\nThese are not merely words.<\/p>\n

 
\nEvery Poem is a Political Poem<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, federal debt
\nI pledge to you
\nNo fidgeting, no
\nlapse of reason,
\nonly consume
\nconsume
\ncon sue sue\u2019 em
\nfrivolously if it comes to it<\/p>\n

There is dolphin meat in the tuna,
\nthe ocean is being filled with plastic,
\nthe canary in the coal mine
\nnever had a union card,
\nand every poem is a political poem.<\/p>\n

The silver minnow dappled in tiny rainbows
\nshimmering under the summer sun
\nwhere the crystal clear creek lazily pools,
\ndoes not know it!<\/p>\n

The wide eyed grey mouse lemur
\nhugging a tree branch below the canopy
\nof the Madagascarian rain forest
\nspooked in the night by a roving
\nband of National Geographic photographers,
\ndoes not know it!<\/p>\n

Our mistake is allowing
\nbullet points to pass for conscience,
\nholes in policy to pass for liberty,
\nfor Christ\u2019s sake to pass as leadership,
\nAnd politics to ever touchy putty
\nMold blindly divisions in every poetry.<\/p>\n

 
\nPoetry Scratch Off Tickets<\/strong><\/p>\n

An unholy level of disappointment
\nand extraordinary waste of imagination
\nlike two zeppelins crashing in the sky
\nthe hydrogen igniting and only ashes
\nmeeting the people below<\/p>\n

A Plath beating your excitement
\nto the punch with precise depression
\nBukowski crushing you literally
\nwith horse race winning
\nfrom decades ago<\/p>\n

For instance a glowing review
\nof your rich estate diminished
\nafter grappling with Tim Murray\u2019s
\naccount of Indiana flat tire Jones\u2019
\ngold gilded Dinosaur Ditch<\/p>\n

When all you really wanted was
\nUncle Walt to account for your
\npersonally greatest hit being,
\nbeing itself,
\nthe scratching that really pays off
\nto live life<\/p>\n

Ah Earth ,Earth
\ndig into that
\nand don\u2019t put any money down
\nfor a poetry scratch off ticket<\/p>\n

 
\nMatthew Sradeja lives in Toledo, Ohio with his wife Kelly and their cat Eleanor.<\/p>\n

“I have worked in the glass and automotive industries. I have been reading poetry at open mics and featured readings for 13 years approx. and spend most of my time reading and writing. Some of my poems have been published on-line and in print. Full of Crow, ppigppen, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Everyreason zine, Toledo Free Press Star, ToledoPoetryPoject and such.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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