Sometimes I feed my hunger

Theodore Lucero

 

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.

 

  

 

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