Big Tent Poetry (7/30/10) — The Lizard King

Posted by Mark on July 29, 2010 in Big Tent Poetry, Drafts, Poetry | Subscribe

The idea this week is to write a poem about an icon, hero or per­son­al­ity and what might be dif­fer­ent. Jim Mor­ri­son is dead.  I won­dered what he might be about were that not the case.

I leave it to you to deter­mine how suc­cess­ful I was with this weeks prompt or not.  In the mean­time, you can see how oth­ers responded by look­ing here. 

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The Lizard King

Would you still be ped­dling the leather clad
Diony­sus shaman act, with hair­line in retreat
Your shirt still unbut­toned down to there?

Would your sulky eyes be tight­ened up
from trips to the plas­tic sup­plier?  Would
you still wake up in the morn­ing and

Get your­self a beer or love her madly?
Even though you walked on out that
door, eter­nally young?

Would you still be sell­ing your­self as a guide
through the labyrinth or still dream­ing of killing
your father?

Are you now liv­ing in the com­pany of
gods or are you just gone?

Would you still be dar­ing infin­ity to answer
your knock or drown­ing in the new wine
you were search­ing for?

Where are you now?  Where were you
then?  No one here gets out alive
is a book; though some thought you did.

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