Motivational Speaker

 

In Spring I wear Pink 20 x 50 x 2 cm acrylic/charcoal on canvas

MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER

A chain gang of ducks digging their way

through darkening blue. Little thumb prints

of red on the horizon. Cold Baltic Sea beneath them.

Are ducks too busy fleeing buckshot

to take five? They seem to be constantly    

swerving away from rest in peace.

Or are they fleeing nothing but the urge to do nothing?

No slackers in this squadron.

Suppose they’re on a flight as useless as

frescoes in a dilapidated palace in Palermo  

or this poem for that matter…or any art

but literally over-the-top

of the world we’re looking at, walking through,

pushing some kind of feathered agenda

up there on their own just for the hell of it.

Like teenage boys on Friday nights way back when

driving up and down Mt. Diablo Blvd.,

listening to Hotel California and Dust In The Wind

eying Mustangs and Camaros with nowhere to go.