(a) Poem written by a cat walking on a keyboard
started with the letter zee 17 times
to zoom into a bold efourefourfourfourarfour preceding a bank of fours
and then
there was a space that appeared to be just a new paragraph
but was really a void, empty and a placeholder
next was the food of the art, the letter kay
known for it's boldness for fronting kings
and the stealthiness of a knife
slid into the work 43 times
a space and
9 times more before waylaid
by an errant el
standing alone against an onslaught of hyphens
set at first as a wall
then discretely in patterns
that resembled the image of a prophet
in a can of tomatoes or on a food for breaking fast.
threethreefourthree then preceded a double you wall
two score deep
and maybe longer except then
interrupted by
a frenzy of effs and gees
punctuated by the dramatic return of zee
the mark of genius disturbed
in the prime of it's colloquial existence
as if a blue eyed boy.
