Colin Buehler is a Canadian who isn't a poet and insists his poems
are never really finished. He can be reached at jbuchan@mach1.wlu.ca.



something happened on the way
to writing this like it
seems to do
something happened
not sure what
happened but something happened
on the way to writing this


i am
in the kitchen with a bag
of party mix which
in itself doesn't make sense because
i am not
having a
party


but there i am eating party
mix and
so naturally i walk
down the hallway and say hi
to my wife watching entertainment tonight which
doesn't make sense because it's taped early
in the day


i log in to find no one
has e-mailed me
sadly
happily
i go to my bookmarked web sites
madly
until it knaws
at me
that i
wrongly
need to write


so now i am here surrounded
by party mix computer stuffed bear
named brentwood
which makes no sense whatsoever (i owe him five bucks since he won at bingo)
memories of busking in quasimoto canvass
and getting attacked by
youngfuckinghoodlumslittleshits


and i write so
something happened on the way to writing this
and if someone can tell me what it was
what it is
i'll be much obliged



(C) Colin Buehler-Buchan

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