Poetry

This is a picture of a doggie that I encountered a few weeks ago on State Street on my way to work on the Lafayette Community Skate Park. I had quite a good time driving as this dog yapped and barked at every car that passed and traveled next to his owner's. I took it at a stop light (don't worry, I was stopped at the time).

Last night I went to that "Einstein-inspired" poetry reading. Boy am I glad I didn't have to pay to get in. Besides a hearty portion of swear words, there were no poems about quantum mechanics, energy=mass times the speed of light squared, or time dilation (and I found out that it wasn't really poems inspired by Einstein, it was a reading by A. Van Jordan of some of his poems, and he has written a book called quantum lyrics). So needless to say, I was disappointed. But in the meantime, I wrote my own poem. It's called "Charcoal."

"Charcoal"

Black
Charcoal, black
Darkness, black
Black coats, black

Black cats, red
Red ants, blue
Blue sky, black

Black eyes, black
Black stacks, black
White black?