six poems

by "anonyme"

illustrations by penmarq studios

yellow monkey with a banana squirrel with a banana banana with a banana dear, is that the telephone? red strawberries in the garden strawberries with cream strawberries hiding in the raspberries all a beautiful dream green joey, a person of limited means picked out a can of lima beans from the provisions in the general store but could afford not one thing more when he presented it to the clerk the clerk said, you're a piece of work joey felt a sense of shame and was glad the clerk knew not his name blue blue gardenias blue rain blue twilight blue and downhearted blue yonder blue ocean little boy blue am i blue? black one sees them in the streets, suddenly, faces from the past, and yet with ravaged visages and stricken with shame for their reduced circumstances when they spot you, and one begins to raise ones walking stick in greeting and as quickly drops it, letting them pass by. years later, one suddenly remembers these fleeting encounters and as quickly forgets them. orange old number nine came down the track throwing sparks from front to back bob the bum with his can of beans stayed discreetly behind the scenes as his nose began to run bob observed the setting sun in all its splendid majesty and flicked an ant from off his knee