P oetry R epair S hop (1999.08: 089)
- CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL POETRY
- by new, emerging, and established poets

WALT PHILLIPS
Selves

there's one
so screwed up it
believes
we've never left the
fifties
and i have to
watch it or it'll
have me
mimicking jo stafford
singing
you belong to me

see the pyramids along
the nile...
watch the sun rise
on a tropic isle...

Poem copyright 1999; all rights reserved. (If you desire a copy of this poem, please contact the AUTHOR).