Joey Cloudy online

 Confessions of a Poolhall Philosopher

I create nothing 

from the infinite within. 

I am not an artiste 

my words are clumsy 

my tongue thick with this 

alien vocabulary. I am 

a vessel I do not claim 

to control only 

to resonate. I listen to the voice 

of my people to see 

the emperor has no soul, to speak 

truth to power, 

to be brave enough to tell 

all that will  

listen. I am 

an atheist touched by the 

gods with a poem.