Everything
About Icarus
Is
A lie.
He never
Flew too high
Burning
His wings.
He
Died in the
Back of a bus
Alone and smiling.
He smiled
And his teeth were yellow.
He laughed
And we all laughed too.
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- Chris McCandless. by Jay-James May
- Found Poems by Karl Koweski
- FOR THOSE SLOWLY DYING by C. Allen Rearick
- The Hero Inside by Maria Gornell
- Two Poems by Kevin M. Hibshman
- Passing Through My Culture by Kevin Barcellos
- Left by Rose Morales
- ’Mishima’s Suicide’ by Matthew Coleman
- The Cure (and The Smiths (but only twice, briefly)...
- Eiderdown by Adelle Stripe
- Face To Face by Vic Swan
- The Stomach Is Gone by Frank Reardon
- Guinness by Christopher Nosnibor
- Everything I Ever Needed To Know by Richard Kovitch
- Someone Is Pitching My Heart Against A Brick Wall ...
- It Is No Longer Rebellious To Be Drunk by Mike Meraz
- Stream by H. R. McGonigal
- MAGIC (a tiny fairy tale) by Suzy Devere
- The Children’s Tower by Mikael Covey
- Bangkok by Steven Wheeler
- Kentish Town Segue. by Jay-James May
- Words Of Love by Michael Keenaghan
- Thought I by Matthew Coleman
- Other Side Of Glass by Juice
- Elodie, A Simple Girl With Good Legs by Amanda Joy
- Don't Eat. Stay Free. by Suzy Devere
- D-I-V-O-R-C-E by Ben Myers
- The Plants Dead And Yellow by Joseph Ridgwell
- Grief by Karl Koweski
- Heartbreak Hotels by Richard Kovitch
- The Unspecial Ballard Of Me And Her by Ford Dagenham
- To Be Continued by Khara Carlson
- Turning Yourself On by Suzy Devere
- Cosmic Orphan by Rob Plath
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5 comments:
i like the picture this paints.
I find myself romanticizing Chris McCandless's story; but I sure do admire him for taking his grand adventure. I just wish he hadn't died.
This is a great image. I love stuff that challenges myths, drags the past kicking and screaming into the present. This poem does the lot.
cool.
Excellent!! Perfect choice of imagery, Mr. May, to bust down all the pre-conceived notions, dogma & bullshit draped over our heroes. Like Jesus, who, raised atop a pedastel, becomes unreachable - something unobtainable - brought back to Earth where he belongs, he regains his value as a hero & something to aspire towards. Can't say enough about this poem. It's absolutely brilliant!!
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