John Doe "From the tiny poem comes the mighty lyric," writes John Doe, legendary rocker-singer-songwriter-poet-actor, leader of X (with Exene, of course), The Knitters and The John Doe Thing. And so to launch this, his own Poetry Slab, he has put two of his own poems on our blue table, poems which might blossom into full-grown songs at some point in time, but which will never wither, for they are forever preserved here in these pages. He offers these with an open invitation to all poets in this blue universe to contribute their own poems to this fleeting locomotive, poems that Mr. Doe himself has kindly volunteered to cull and edit. For consideration of your own poems to be included here, fill out the form to your right. Web Site: www.theejohndoe.com Back Name        Email Location Title Poem The John Doe Poetry Slab February 2007 Two poems By John Doe    a big brown field a big, brown field where the grass is all burned would slice your feet even if you walked w/ little, tiny, baby steps we are two crows sitting on two fence posts waiting for something to die content to still be alive we're just talking as crows often do there's no fighting conversation w/ no struggle struggling down below us all the other animals battling to the death & we're just talking waiting for something to die hot sun heats up our black feathers on the horizon there comes a rider maybe a feast is riding this way he looks kind of skinny but we don't care we make do & we're just talking as crows often do as our feathers heat up & wiggling snakes of heat come up from the dirt there comes a rider riding this way now that big, brown field's burned black & a black cloud hangs above the rider's gone the dead look as though shaken out of a bucket & scattered to the horizon & we're still talking as we eat Top    |   Back    raining like hell raining like hell washing away the snow on our mountain too sad Mickey Mantle still hits home runs just not here aren't you lonely yet? • Top    |   Back [advertisement] [advertisement] [advertisement] ©2007. All rights reserved. about us    |   privacy    |   credits    |   contact