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Two poems by Nick D’Annunzio Jones

Nick D’Annunzio Jones

Halley's Comet

Good Morning, God

At breakfast, I launch a small pink quasar into a black hole. Minutes later,
receptors blocked, serotonin-flooded, my cosmos collapses; heaven-humming,
orbiting hypomania, bang – a star is born!

I also hear a comet talking: Side-effects include universal love, space dreams,
moonwalking; if the urge to produce a paean about astro-pharmacology develops, seek
help immediately, as this may be a sign of artistic delusion.

I ask the nurse for a bowl of quarks with a meteor shower.

Kerouac’s Mad

Sorry, Jack, we don’t pop flash like space spiders, fabulous or Roman. We yawn
(meds); say nothing (or the wrong thing) and want less – not more – of
everything (kind of zen, right, man?)

Yet we still live lives quite, quite, quite mad, often awwwwwwwesomely so.

Nick D’Annunzio Jones

Nick is a Seattle money manager and poet, and a former reporter (under his real name) for The New York Times. His creative work has been published, often under pen names, in Open Letters Monthly, Treehouse, Evergreen Review and other journals. He earned MFA from the University of California at Riverside.

Author: Nick D’Annunzio Jones Tags: Jack Kerouac, poetry Category: Poetry October 10, 2014

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