Stray: Looking Down, Looking Up

Friday, December 7, 2007

Looking Down, Looking Up

Sometimes it’s like stepping in gum

Right outside the 24 hour donut shop

Run by the Thai man who reminds you

Of what could be God

Or is.

And you run inside and ask him

For a plastic knife to help scrape it off

But all he’s got

Is incense and apple fritters.

Everywhere around you buses start their engines

Warming up for a brand new day

While you try to scrape your gumshoe

On the clueless concrete

Asking yourself how you grew up so fast

How you got here

Without a car to drive in

And what will happen

When the buses don’t run.

And you look to the sleepless

Thai man for answers

But he responds with more questions:

“Coffee? Donut?

What kine you like?”

By Owen

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Stray is a collective of people who want to revolutionize the state of poetry in the world today. The idea behind this is that the practice and celebration of poetry has become stale and limited only to people in academics (who pay lots of money to write about poetry) or published poets (who get paid lots of money to write poetry). This is not true. There is no such thing as a professional poet. Our poems cannot be bought and sold. There is no form of capital or elitism that can be applied to human expression. Stray seeks to revitalize this ancient art form and bring the power of composing back to the common people through a variety of methods. Most of these methods will not be nonviolent. Load your poetry guns and lob your poetry grenades. Stray is the new word revolution.