Pithy mambo! Cuban conga bongo
conversation with the Gods –- scuba
into verbs and dithyrambic perturbations

of the kind that make vocabulary
wind into exasperating rabid suggestivity:
just the gist, please (add an upright

bass, piano, claves, saxophone, and
trumpet and trombone); scrap the list.
Today make way. Today wake May.

  *a usually short poem in an inspired wild irregular strain

©2007, Guy Kettelhack

Guy Kettelhack is the author and coauthor of over 30 nonfiction books. His poems have appeared widely in both online and print poetry journals, and his work has often been selected to represent the About Poetry Forum in the InterBoard Poetry Competition, where it was recognized as runner-up in May 2004. He lives very happily in New York City.

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