Sometimes I feed my hunger
Sometimes I’m wandering with no money
Sometimes I’m cell-phoned, band-rolled, pockets full of change,
email, high-speed electrons rearrange
to form a fully realized message
Sometimes I’m wandering, wordless
Sometimes I’m spouting off over microphones and speakers
the taught are the teachers
I’m always weaker than the lowest-common denominator
and stronger than numbers
Sometimes I fast, sometimes I feed my hunger
Theodore Lucero is a poet, musician, and fine artist from Indianapolis. Having spent much of his youth dispersed evenly between the serenity of America’s endless expanses and the madness of its seething metropolises, Theodore has shaped his verse around the perspective of a European son making sense of his place in the wilds and cities of a nation newly forged in a land that will bear no name. His poetry has appeared in Vallum Magazine and is forthcoming in The New York Quarterly.