Subject: Sat AM Poetry Cartoon
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 15 1997 - 16:30:44 GMT
Life Has Little
Beyond not waking up too early
On Saturday so the morning has plenty
Of coffee, toast, and a dog walk
With a Holden Caulfield sidekick
Posing and painting walking moments
With video paws that trot slowly
Into the focus of a new day playfully awake
At our almost slumbering heels
This almost Buddy holding the leash
Is all of us boomers walking our
Mornings beyond work routines
Tired in ways almost hepatic and perhaps
Just as sick in our spirit swimming,
Stroking age mistakes one life at a time...
Home again in this day's rays of early sun
Newspaper reading down to the want ads
(After last night's _New Yorker_ now spread out
With her back pages laying open like legs)
When another text switch hijacks eyes
With its schemes of making Esme` online
A middle-aged Saturday morning cartoon
With all of her adult faculties intact
Transfixed in pajamas and screened twice with TV
And with parents sleeping, our fingers reached
Deep into a jar of peanut butter, chunky with taking
And almost exactly like catching this Salinger poem
Pixilated in the possible structure
Of another sonnet like another younger day
will hochman
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