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Self Portrait From A Third Person Angle by Peter Krok . . . so who was he to say a word did not fit the voice To Joyce Carol Oates in a Joyce Carol Oates story? The insouciance in such a claim! Who the hell Is this row house guy anyway? Who was "he" to tell Joyce Carol Oates "argot" was out of place; A word in her gothic story was not mot juste. The dark eyes of the austere matron of the arts Looked at him with chagrined civility. Inside a red brick house there's a child humming "Für Elise" at the piano while on the streets Outside he can hear so many others playing. The boy stares often from his living room window At the bronze-haloed statue of Joan of Arc. At a parent's conference the counselor said, "The boy's afraid of his own shadow." Kierkegaard wrote a life's development Can only be explained by tracing it backward Since the inevitable would fatalize the process. © Peter Krok « Home | Contributor Notes » |
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