Convolitions 2
(Escapes and Attitudes)
Escape artists and
Copped attitudes
Wield forms of speech
That sound like they
Say or mean something
Worth repeating or
Unwittingly intuitive
Such as “Forgive me for
Speaking out of turn
But my bus just left
For downtown Milwaukee
And now I’m stranded
On its outskirts, no escaping.”
It’s true that I’ve since decided
To shut down feeling
In my unresponsive side
While what I think drifts
Up and away as the constant
Whiz and whir of traffic
Rushing by tears my hair,
Twists my neck, and numbs
My butt, which makes this
Fake injustice just another
Unknowable but inescapable
Attitude adjustment of
Battered body left behind.
About the Poet
Kit Wienert is a Chapel Hill poet whose latest book is Analogs of Eden. His out-of-print chapbooks include The Everywhere Province, The Love Unit, Incidental Musics and Fictions, Idylls and Admonitions, and Doctrines of the Moment. His poems and other writings have appeared in The Lampeter Muse, Credences, Tellus, The Pearl, Exquisite Corpse, Oyster Boy Review, and North Carolina Literary Review, as well as in the anthologies Sparks of Fire: William Blake in a New Age and Gathering Voices.