Poems Niederngasse

Alice Folkart
Any Thursday Morning

I wake up empty,
drained by dreams.
Fill the void with oatmeal
and the news,
horrors for my entertainment,
universal pain for my edification,
catastrophe with cream and sugar,
a toasted slice of life.

Sometimes I wish that I still smoked.
The world deserves it.


17 February 2005, round I, poem 5


Alice Folkart lives in Los Angeles, California. Her short story, The
Lie will appear in the March 2005 issue of Long Story Short.
email:  Alice Folkart