Thank You Dallas Clayton
- Author: Faith-Ann Young
- Posted on: Thursday May 6, 2010 at 8:00 AM
- Filed under: art, exclusive, dallas clayton, writing, poetry
Some people say poetry is dead.
Those people haven't read poet-artist Dallas Clayton.
The dude writes about everything and nothing under the sun, about his son, or of a random NY street, on his own personal site.
His poems are short, sweet, sometimes sour, and always whimsical- perfect for those days you are feeling down and just click on his URL and feel a little ray of light float from the page back to you - in the form of a short, neat package of prose aligned under a cute little doodle.
Case in point:
FIGHT ON A NEW YORK CORNER
You are so mad at this man
and he is so mad at you
yet you mean nothing to each other.
Unfamiliar objects of annoyance
loud as brass bells.
Bits of loose scrap metal strewn about the highway
which, rather than swerving to avoid,
you have chosen
to pull over and yell at
bottlenecking the others
rubbing elbows on their way toward
accomplishment.
LOOKING FOR METAPHORS
And
I’m in the front yard
kicked back toward the sky
wondering how those telephone poles
got so cluttered with wires,
transformers,
big black cables wrapped around going this way and that,
like there was never any plan
never a thought for an exit,
just one worker man after the next
adding on to the heap
and telling himself
“That’s what the boss said do.”
LATER
We can go all night
dancing to music we’ve never heard
and don’t much care for
drinking until it gets so very funny
every word, every step.
Go until we’re leaned crooked against the wall
and feeling strangely at home
in this illegal after hours club
like a high-rise apartment living room
hot, with bad couches
and carpets that remind me of my grandmother
and her racism
and her bowls of fake plastic grapes.
*Thank you Dallas Clayton. We don't know you. But we wish we did.
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