poem:
van de graaff,
1990

poem:
van de graaff,
1990

17 May 2025    
from kidstruck

benjamin harker 

 

At height on a plastic box, / feet off earth, your hand / spanned that chromy globe

 



At height on a plastic box,
feet off earth, your hand
spanned that chromy globe

and

I wished it my neck, or head:
my belt would have spun
and hair risen too

but

you were just a model, a
static example, a fifth period
Van de Graaff statue

so

the class just chewed and
there maybe was sun outside
or a plane passing

which

both rather better spoke
physics than these pitted benches;
whiny apparatus, some statistic,

but



you were my sun
albeit 93 million reasons
I could only orbit

and

your celestial intake, your wild
hair made you a juvenile godling,
raising powers from friction

and

they wanted a volunteer to touch
your finger, receive
your bolt of puny lightning

and I

raised my
hand, closed
my eyes,



and got
electrocuted
at twenty millimetres.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

in april, i open my bill

 

poem: a salesman, 1991

 

poem: mole, 1991

   

benjamin harker

Paedophiles do not pursue the lives of cuckoos purposefully. We begin loved and welcomed. We are babies, then children and we grow up alongside you.

 

benjamin harker

Life's a banquet, his son had to beam, / and most sons of bitches are starving.

 

benjamin harker

a dark poem from a dark place

 
 
 
in april, i open my bill
benjamin harker

Paedophiles do not pursue the lives of cuckoos purposefully. We begin loved and welcomed. We are babies, then children and we grow up alongside you.

 
 
 
poem: a salesman, 1991
benjamin harker

Life's a banquet, his son had to beam, / and most sons of bitches are starving.

 
 
 
poem: mole, 1991
benjamin harker

a dark poem from a dark place