John-Ward Leighton CD

DROPPED OFF

Photo ©Copyright 2012 by John-Ward Leighton CDHave you ever had the feeling
that your life is spinning out of control
and somehow you have been late
and missed a roll call
sitting in front of silly little screens
listening and watching other people’s dreams
the ads talking to us like we are brain dead louts
because they can’t hear our anguished shouts
the illusion of control
clicking in our hands
while we listen to long dead musicians
and watch them playing in long dead bands
aside from the coffee girls
and some voice mail
and listening to the Rolling Stones
making their bones
this two day poem
doesn’t go where the buffalo roam
writing on this page without a pen
don’t know what it is but here it comes again
time to shave
a habit to which I’m a slave
before my fight at the OK corral
happens to preserve my morale
so on that melancholy note
wondering about all those unanswered phone calls
but in this particularly gray spring
would I hear my phone ring
the page rolls along
and I finish my coffee
and listen to another song
and scoff at being dropped off