If I Could Say (Nostalgia for Mars)


Pop Music from Mars

If I could say
if I could put into words
all the sweetness
that you brought
into my life

Be like a summertime
long ago
in the park
on the 4th of July
by the riverside




my first published poem (1971):

BEEP BEEP THE BABY'S UP

 
 
you can do anything you want.

 
the baby here is trying to decide

 
about growing up human.  he's rubbing

 
his double chin, he's a serious kid.

 
in a house on Arthur Street
 
a cap pistol is sitting on a desk

 
in the bedroom upstairs with the yellow

 
walls.   according to the kid here

 
it's supposedly waiting

 
for the little green men.

 
the sky gets closer

 
as it gets more blue,

 
and you can recall

 
the 4th of July

 
all the heat

 
and all those little flags