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Erie County Poet Laureate Cee Williams
April 10, 2015 – Cee Williams
Bluebird Poem
Charles Bukowski
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?
April 11, 2015 – Cee Williams
The Guy Who Wore a Dragon Costume
Lev Burykin
He wore it for Halloween. It was a hit, And then he started wearing it
everyday. “They call me The Dragon” That was his pick-up line at the bar
…and in the grocery aisle and the book club. In fact,
that was the way he generally introduced himself to others,
He just said it with a certain cadence around women.
Creepy? A little. A little more-so when he plays his fiddle
I think he’s a happy dragon, wagging his tail as he leaves every domain
looking to and fro, like he owned the place.
That son-of-a-bitch! Who does he think he is?
Right “The Dragon” no need to remind me
Anyways, next Halloween it was another phase
This time, he was Bill Gates… Not as good as his dragon days
But he still insisted he was a just artist
After 10 years of this experiment he had also been Captain America,
Miss America 2006(whatever her name is), Gandhi, that other guy
who always said “Oy, Crikey!” a couch, then a coach, a blunt roach
and lastly, out of irony, he was a mime.
People had forgotten who he originally was. This made him a mime unmatched
He became famous. So on the 11th year he was…himself;
The Guy Who Wore a Dragon Costume. Naturally though,
this meant that he had to wear a dragon costume.
Preferably the original.
April 12, 2015 – Cee Williams
Untitled
uneasy morning
Himalayas on my shoulders
this fissure runs deep
the darkest parts sting
be a flower
all bright things
the things that Buddhists say
Mister Sherpa
there’s a gypsy throwing stones in the well
the well is deep
the stones will sink
the wise will drink from the top
the anecdote is knowledge of self
witnesses help
so do therapists
the things that Buddhists say
be a flower
all bright things
plant sorghum
too much nitrate means love won’t grow
be the moon
above the terrestrial
be not fingers and mouths and feet
be not arms and legs
be not mind or spirit
be instead the river
or perhaps the cascade
the things that Buddhists say
be a flower
all bright things
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