{"id":1220,"date":"2008-04-15T13:16:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T13:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2008-04-15T13:16:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T13:16:02","slug":"three-poems-by-david-labounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/three-poems-by-david-labounty\/","title":{"rendered":"Three poems by David LaBounty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Poem About More of the Same<\/span>

<\/span><\/span>
the words rise<\/span>
above the coffee<\/span>
smells and soft<\/span>
music like an<\/span>
antiseptic cloud<\/span>
and the words<\/span>
rise from a collection<\/span>
of women dressed<\/span>
in black sweaters black<\/span>
pants black boots and<\/span>
they all look the same<\/span>
but different<\/span>
<\/span>
and their cars out front,<\/span>
<\/span>
ski racks and<\/span>
honor student<\/span>
stickers, suvs and<\/span>
minivans, envoys and<\/span>
tahoes, caravans<\/span>
and odysseys.<\/span>
<\/span>
milk, one of them says,<\/span>
I haven't given<\/span>
Nathan anything<\/span>
with milk in it for the<\/span>
past two months. not<\/span>
even grilled cheese<\/span>
or macaroni and I<\/span>
have to tell you, what<\/span>
a difference it makes,<\/span>
it makes him less aggressive<\/span>
and I did this because<\/span>
he was acting up in school,<\/span>
fidgeting at his desk<\/span>
cutting in line<\/span>
and it was because of<\/span>
the milk, I tell you, and<\/span>
who wants their kid<\/span>
to act up in school,<\/span>
who wants that kind of<\/span>

<\/span>attention?<\/span>


~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span>
<\/p>\n


Hollywood is Nothing More Than Hollywood<\/span>

<\/span>
in between<\/span>
jobs and<\/span>
money was<\/span>
an issue<\/span>
as I was<\/span>
cruising<\/span>
the video<\/span>
rental place<\/span>
aisles<\/span>
and I couldn't<\/span>
find anything<\/span>
worth giving<\/span>
up a buck<\/span>
ninety-nine for<\/span>
and it was<\/span>
so very<\/span>
clear to<\/span>
me that<\/span>
I was and<\/span>
probably<\/span>
will always<\/span>
be a loser<\/span>
and that<\/span>
Hollywood<\/span>
is hungry<\/span>
for your<\/span>
money and<\/span>
<\/span>
ideas.<\/span>


~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span>

 <\/span>
Fair Trade<\/span>
<\/p>\n

<\/span>the bags says the coffee is<\/span>
fair trade and I paid extra<\/span>
for it because I like to think<\/span>
I'm helping the little<\/span>
guy, helping some poor<\/span>
brown-skinned dude<\/span>
in Guatemala get<\/span>
a fair price for his<\/span>
beans and I sip<\/span>
that coffee on<\/span>
the way to work,<\/span>
from the suburbs<\/span>
through the disintegrating<\/span>
city where the bus stops<\/span>
are overflowing.<\/span>
<\/span>
I sip that coffee,<\/span>
with pale and tender lips<\/span>
attached<\/span>
to a face that is white<\/span>
and my coffee<\/span>
is black and<\/span>
<\/span>
coincidentally<\/span>

<\/span>so are the faces<\/span>
waiting for the bus.<\/p>\n

\u2022 David LaBounty says… I live in suburban Detroit with my wife and two young sons and there is more info on my very boring blog at http:\/\/davidlabounty.blogspot.com<\/a>
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Another Poem About More of the Samethe words riseabove the coffeesmells and softmusic like anantiseptic cloudand the wordsrise from a collectionof women dressedin black sweaters blackpants black boots andthey all look the samebut differentand their cars out front,ski racks andhonor studentstickers, suvs andminivans, envoys andtahoes, caravansand odysseys.milk, one of them says,I haven't givenNathan anythingwith milk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}