The Poetry Corner

Buzz Phrase

By Paul Cameron Brown

Down on your luck or, as they say, "financially embarrassed" ... with little in the way of hope, less palaver- drifting in & out of theme parks not unlike El Paso, Prairie Junction between jobs, causes and wives... letting "it all hang out", in the jumble of the moranese letting despair and the pig iron law of economics have their say- shouting "moral support" in the face of the rocky "well-wisher". I read all the plots and each ends up as a grave... once in a single afternoon I even gave up on golddiggers who, though just passing through meant dress rehearsal for the bigger jive, "longterm" and since when should "patching up and catching up" make starry-eyed even that slip of a girl, commitment.