Ponderable polemics, poetic

WordPress site of poet Mark Lucker

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  • Calling my wife at work

    Can I take you to lunch? Can I take you upstairs? I have only an hour to go where I desire to be taken; taking time for longings, for lunch taking time is tempting as you tempt me, letting me be taken to lunch or taken elsewhere always hungry because I am always taken with… Read more

  • Résumé I…?

    Paperboy. ice-cream-scooper- slash-soda jerk; lumberjack, dishwasher donut-seller Early professions, pocket-money for adolescence, keen life-lesson reality checks still being cashed Passed the tests had some laughs Real, adult life, full-time living. Radio announcer. Construction-gopher census taker, house painter, shopping-mall Santa, radio station manager and pumpkin monger; more life lessons, more life lived, lived well Bellman, waiter,… Read more