Tuesday, December 3, 2024

poem

 The Land of Jeff

I feel further and further away from my own name

Like a country I left years ago, meant to return,

But never got around to it:

The land of Jeff

I have a ticket somewhere around here

That supposedly will get me back 


Where I am now is not a country

I drift through international waters

In a raft caught in a current

That I assume will terminate on solid ground.

I only hope it will be someplace unclaimed

Or at least without an agreed upon name

By nature I’m a trespasser, a stowaway

On someone else’s vessel


Someone will soon come looking for me.

I already know how all this ends. 

I’ll run out of places to hide

And my last alias will get tied

To the inexpungible name.

The grande finale is a deportation

And baseless scapegoating:

It was Jeff who did this

Jeff is solely to blame 



12/3/24

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