is the nobel prize

for winners or listeners

or losers or breath-taking

visionary movie-goers

with popcorn hats and

coats sheepskin gloves

and hippy hair literary

smiles grinning like

monkeys at the zoo -

scanning the signs

of the times or tides

at jones beach flashing

those pearly teeth

beneath the waves

above the shadow of

a cloud - the temptations

and bob dylan stroking

the air when caught

with his air guitar

rhyming and reeling a

scottish jig or an irish

lullaby fiddled not stirred

the spoken words like

milky porridge and

purred with harmonic

dissonance actual verbs

nouns and adjectives a

cool cat with rhythmic

verve curving the ball like

a dodgers fan out of the

frying pan and into the

glare, the spotlight of

21st century pessipoemistic

idiomatic expressionism

the lorca of usa