DOUBLE DAMNED
I spurn your sentiments,
and you spurn mine.
I situate myself side saddle
on that hayseed horse.
I, a woman cultivated
and created to consider
the sound points and the
puny pronouncements,
of he, the man in my life.
But she wonders how this
and that happened to me
and mine.
O saraband and stately
pavane, what precipitated
this passion, this poignant
participation in the daily
doings?
I will be double damned if I do.
REVENGE
Hollywood, who,
no why, no way to
exchange this day for that.
Like Bill Sprat, who had
no fat,
on his fancy belly, we
who watch, wish him no
well.
If not hell, a half one
situated on a southern
ridge.
Stanley Kaplan has published work in a number of journals and anthologies, including, Onthebus, Chiron Review, Midstream and Quiet Courage with others forthcoming.
He lives in New York City where he paints as well as writes. Stanley is the recipient of a Pollack- Krasner Foundation grant.
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