Greed is Some Nutters Interpretation of Modernism

by Colin James

Cash is the drug of choice.

I'd hidden mine

under a large rock like in

the film Treasure Of The Sierre Madre

guarded by a growing monster.

What's in your symbolism?

Thought about such things afterwards.

Oh yeah I see what you mean,

kept hanging around like coincidence.

No water but plenty of booze.

Cigarettes I enthusiastically smoke them

despite my spotty lungs.

Everyone knows the heart pumps blood in

you get out what you get out.

Surviving is not the point.

I've left a little do ray me for you

if you happen to find this note.

The likelihood is you won't.

Colin James has a couple of chapbooks of poetry published. Dreams Of The Really Annoying from Writing Knights Press and A Thoroughness Not Deprived of Absurdity from Piski's Porch Press and a book of poems, Resisting Probability, from Sagging Meniscus Press. Formally from the UK, he now lives in Massachusetts.