Michael Pruchnicki Poems

Don't you agree?

They sit hunched in front of the monitor
solitary beings punching out their ideas
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Once upon a time I lived
in a hut with ten other guys
in a village near Kaesong
north of the 38th parallel
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Rereading Shelley's 'Ozymandias' recently
gave me time to reconsider
the glory days of Germany
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I read cervantes' novel don quixote
in visitation grammar school

the good nuns knew I was not
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Some think that a story has no place
in poetry - 'Put it in the short stories, '
he said, dismissing a poem I wrote
as a narrative, as though such verse
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the only movie for her
was one about edith

the street sparrow
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A modern day prophet of doom
is a rather corpulent politician -
a Cassandra of global warning
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Mick was coming out of the kitchen with a can
of Bud in his fist, bellowing at Celia and the new
puppy at her feet when he stopped suddenly =
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If you can't use the vernacular
if you prefer rodomontade
to the precise inflections
of one who works at his trade
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Give me Thomas Aquinas, scholar who grew
from a dumb ox in school! Ignatius Loyola,
who founded an order of religious warriors
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