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A Chance to Change
A gray bearded petition
of the flannel business suit for change
is ignored as if dipped in dung,
as if rendered subhuman
by circumstance and time,
we see the well fed bellies
and their trembling cigarettes
poised between pampered soft hands,
we feel no air to breath,
only a gulping invisible vacuum,
some incompressible sorrow pulls
all that exists into a void:
everything vanishes.
A few are left, have a chance to change,
to start over,
but they don't.
A Second Opinion Please
He hears voices from the dark,
understands that there really is
nothing to be understood,
rests his mind on laugher we do not hear.
He is only attached to the bed
upon which he rests,
the clothes upon his body,
or the humid breeze
that calls him from the street
to conquer all the gods.
We who know the importance
of that which we create,
that which sends us like scurrying rats,
groveling dogs for supper's discarded bones:
Call him, insane.
Rich Furman is a professor in the Department of Social Work at Colorado State University, and has had numerous poems published in literary journals
throughout the years. As far as other relevant biographical information, in case you are curious, he enjoys contemplating the meaning of his navel,
lives with two terrifying looking yet sweet American Bulldogs, a sweet looking and sometimes terrifying fiancé, and two kids who are as terrifying
as banana slugs to a rhinoceros. He has traveled and lived in Central America, and tries to get back as often as he can. He loves to read poetry
from the small press, poetry that is real, alive, hits you in the gums and gets out. He loves to receive feedback on his work, if you are so inclined.
Rich Furman, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Colorado State University.
Email: Rich Furman
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