Volume One Issue Two
Samuel S. Vargo
Just a Rainy Night in Georgia
Dreary days come
And they go,
Don't you know.
It's raining in north Florida
Today
So I guess
It's going to be a rainy night
In Georgia, too.
Today's Saturday 10-27-
Two thousand seven
In the day of our Lord
And I know the Bulldogs
And the Gators are playing
Now as I sit and stew
Over you, me and the mailman.
How many times
Seven does it take to wipe the slate clean?
How many and how far
Does the carrot go
For that fuzzy rabbit
To actually bite?
All I know is the Gators
And the Bulldogs
Can leave me out of a parley.
I come from a place
That has an icicled
Duck as a mascot
And I know all there is to know
About pregnancies
And malignant cancers
Thanks to life
And getting hit over the spine
With a hard column painted
In various shades & hues
With turpentine.
Fella,
And more often than not,
Those old teachers who taught
Me have their own poems to write
Right now. I haven't seen them in ten
Years & hopefully when we meet again
It won—t be over literature and bland
Cupcakes & wine but over the after —
Certain eulogies and times dimensioned
To the nth degree.
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