Create your own Poetic Libretto (16 pages of poetry and photos) and send it to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by Friday, October 31st. Your Poetic Libretto will be posted on this website, and you will be invited to perform it at the 3rd Annual Celebration of the Poetic Libretto on Saturday Afternoon Poetry's Zoom channel this coming November 29th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Friday, May 9, 2025

Something to Make you Happy by Marvinlouis

 

Something to Make you Happy

a

 Bobby John Press

Poetic Libretto

Marvinlouis

 

May be an image of television

a

voice

in

 

my

head

said

 

never

leave

home

 

with-

out

eyes

ta

see

 

with-

out

ears

ta

hear

 

with-

out

pen-

cil

without

pieces

of blank

paper

 

then

Muse

said

 

yuuup

that's

right

May be a black-and-white image of horse

 

en-

ticed

ta

write

a

poem

 

on

a

rainy

thurs-

day

in high

desert

 

i

hate

wet

feet

so is it

worth me

going out

into

rain

be-

cause

i

was

en-

ticed

ta

write

a

poem

 

on

a

rainy

thurs-

day

 

in

this

happy

high

des-

ert

 

those

are not

scratches

on black

fence

they

are

 

rain drops

May be an image of fire escape


my

mind

 

runs so

damn

fast

 

so much

faster

than

takin

out

one's

own

trash

 

my

mind

 

runs so

damn

fast

 

it's

like

my foot

mis-

sing

tryin

ta

kick

 

my

own

black

ass

 

my

mind

runs so

damn

fast

 

ive

for-

got-

ten

 

why

i

 

wanted

ta write this

poem

 

ta take

this picture

No photo description available.

i

heard

watched

on

eve-

ning

news

 

about

fires

burning

in

high

desert

 

same

night so

cold that

this guy

at 11:30

in the next

day's

mornin

was still

wrapped

 

in dirty

blan-

ket

No photo description available.

this

strange

 

un-

set-

tling

 

thought

 

hard

to

 

un-

der-

stand

 

all

is

well

 

with

my

soul

 

my

God

 

is

good

 

all

this

time

 

my

God

 

has

been

good

 

all

is

well

 

with whom

thought

was me

 

to-

day

 

for-

ever

 

 

No photo description available.

a-

ma-

zing

 

how

much

 

can

be

lost

 

in

smoke

ashes

 

last

dash

 

run-

ning

 

for

ya

life

 



 

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