Comatose or Crazy

They’re all comatose or so crazy
lying in a hospital bed unmoving
or wandering around on the stage
looking at the curtains & the paint

On the walls so tiny first woman
Prime Minister follows where he
goes as that paint is so suddenly
so special they just must stare &

Stare as they sleep so open eyed
until in the middle of the meeting
they doze off with mouth open &
with gurgling and snorting & gee

Up in the very middle of the night
they plot to put themselves on up
on Mt. Rushmore & Arc de Trump
great ballroom in the sky crazy &
                    (yes, comatose)

 

James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s. He is a member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992. Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop, which his Labyrinth titled poems are based on. His work appears weekly in Oddball Magazine.