Scratches
Half-chewed verbs
drip in a rhythm
brought on by a scratched 45
and you sit back,
wondering if its all
worth it or if it is
original,
familial,
damnable
because the meaning
is lost somewhere,
between the punctuation,
and the interpretation.
Gnaw at the nouns
for symbols and stare
down some verbs, praying
one will be the key
to finding the hiding
philosophy –
feel so phony –
is that a joke?
maybe.
But you’re still wondering
is there a symbol
in the “words”
and a hiding code
“brought” about with
the scratched 45.
The kids used to play it backwards
to see if it had something to it
then they moved it forward
and when the motion became
masturbation,
they cut a hip hop record
and made more money
from the confusion
than the solution.
©
2005, Jay M. Kurtz, All rights reserved.
