Patrick E. Clark has been a Singer-songwriter-poet for about the past thirty years.He spent much of his time in the late 60's and early 70's playing music in various situations and starving, interspersed with mad hitchhiking travels about the country,(yeah, he read "Dharma Bums" too). For the past several years, he and his wife Kristine have owned and operated The Red Dog Bed & Breakfast in Saugatuck, Michigan

This Poem is included in the 9/ 11/02 online BEATITUDE edited by Michelle Marie Boleyn

PAST TO BE 

LITERATING RHYTHMS
BACK ON MY PACK
PERCOLATING SEA BIRDS
SOCK ON MY TACK
SALIVATING PICTURE
DANCE ON THE BRAKE
CELEBRATING BACKSPIN
CEREBRAL INTAKE
CLOWNING DOWN THE MOURNING
SIMPLE TO THREE
EVERLASTING MENTION
ABSOLUTELY!
SOFA DREAMING BACKTALK
SHEAR ASPIRATE
TAKE IT ON THE HARPOON
A CHAIR UNDERRATE
LIGHT THE LAMP A HAIRDO
BRING IN THE BASE
SERENADE THE KEEPER
A ROSE ON THE FACE
DOORWAY INTUITION
SANITY SPRING
UP THE SPIRAL FASHION
A RAINBOW TO SING

© Patrick Clark

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