Of course, naturally I am the very one
who gets underneath their shit enough
just like them to see it ever so visceral
different to the core old man still glows

Alive calling to them with hand gesture
not absorbed by that ye olde palm pilot
virtual reality in life of those algorithms
I go about naked of devices and holding

Onto the physical world a bench of time
where I sit feet up looking out to space.

 

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.