18: Gregory Betts

Plunder in the Key of G

thought

lying
cloying
regret moonlight
regret
cloying
poem-thing

forgetful midnight

looking Gary


Plunder in the Key of A

What can a banjo
lazy and
brain’s
(brain’s hearse
real)
(brain
real)

and
an
a head
a ears,
a banjo, a, a
another
a heart

what that mean
thanks and
forward Gary


Plunder in the Key of R

you’re
brain’s proud smoulder
tendrils

(or …brain’s hearse
smoulder real)
(or… brain
smoulder real)

wretched
burns
rhyme
never
doors where ears,
regret
memory, regret
another heart

words?

forward Gary


Plunder in the Key of Y

you
you’re lazy

lying
my
cloying rhyme
fully
my eyes
my
memory
cloying

Gary


 
Coda: Plunder in the Key of E

when the
the smoulder
the smoke-like tendrils

(the smoke-like hearse
the smoulder the real)
(the smoke-like
the smoulder the real)

wretched
like poem

often violet inside head
like rhyme
never closed

where eyes, ears, nose
be

never regret bed
memory, regret
another poem

‘have heart’
does mean
sweet, forgetful?