Poetry of Issue #7        Page 26

LITERARY EFFORTS/TIN PALACE

I’m sitting at my table

                                   listening
to music, trying
                        to write a poem
                                                about music
(Lisa said bring music poems)

now
the other day
                        when I saw Frank
Frank said
             bring bar poems

so I sat in the bar
                        all day
but when it was time to go home
I hadn’t written any bar poems no poems at all
I couldn’t even see

so I had one for the road

and I was listening to the music
trying to write a music poem

                        but I was getting tired

so I thought I’d just
                        try again
for that bar poem

  Gregg Weatherby