TO TODD MOORE
Old schoolteacher cowboy poet
Way back in your eyes
Your pain saw stories
And touched lives
Lesser beings never noticed
Or, noticing, chose to hide
THE OLD BOHEMIAN PIPER BECKONS TO A CHILD OF THE SIXTIES
An agony of happiness
Is not to be dismissed--
Forsake assisted living,
Screw your kids’ inheritance,
Surrender what remains
Of your pride and your life
And dance, grandma, dance.
Born in Detroit, Steven Gulvezan has worked as a journalist and a librarian. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Scythe, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, Heavy Bear, Gutter Eloquence, The Absent Willow Review, Battered Suitcase and many other literary publications.
Old schoolteacher cowboy poet
Way back in your eyes
Your pain saw stories
And touched lives
Lesser beings never noticed
Or, noticing, chose to hide
THE OLD BOHEMIAN PIPER BECKONS TO A CHILD OF THE SIXTIES
An agony of happiness
Is not to be dismissed--
Forsake assisted living,
Screw your kids’ inheritance,
Surrender what remains
Of your pride and your life
And dance, grandma, dance.
Born in Detroit, Steven Gulvezan has worked as a journalist and a librarian. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Scythe, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, Heavy Bear, Gutter Eloquence, The Absent Willow Review, Battered Suitcase and many other literary publications.
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