Fifth Sun - First Issue (3)

Herewith, the latest selection from dusted-off published poetry and short fiction, circa 1970s vintage and beyond....

Take Poets

Listen:
Old Erasmus thought
they were foolish and pathetic
- that's what he wrote
in his folly opus. But he
was wrong. They're the
lunatic fringe of society

lapsed philosophers
hidden misanthropes.
Read Hardy and Lawrence.
Hell, - read Layton and Plath!
If there was a button handy
they'd push it.

Thank god I'm normal
three meals a day
- normal evacuations.
They evacuate shit from the
top end. (That's what I hear
anyway.)

Listen:
I can't figure out why
I'm writing this. I need
help.

c. 1979 - Rita Rosenfeld
Published in Fifth Sun, First Issue, 1979