Poem Book

By James Foley

This book contains poems that can be enjoyed by everyone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9781662444951

James Foley

James Foley is a founding member of the Radical Independence Campaign. He is that author of Yes: The Radical Case for Scottish Independence (Pluto, 2014).

Book preview

Faunna

Sitting in a coffee shop on Clark Street

Looking at the sexy ladies

Walking in the place

Nothing more to do but lurk

Every book I hold is crinkled or wrinkled

Thirsting knowledge seeking who I want to be

I read in the whirlpool in the sauna

I’m in the steam room with a crinkled book

Looking for Faunna

At the restaurant friends all around

As Dexter goes by on his skateboard

Yelling in front of the medical clinic Help! Help!

A man on his bike rolls by kitchen on wheels

He is keeping a positive flow

When I was young

I hung around junkyards at old Irving railroad tracks

Drinking blast beer we stole from the train cars

At the age of twelve

My friend played guitar

I made up a blues song

About old Miss Mary

Always having wicked fantasies

Silver night baby she’s coming down the tracks

21,000 Volts

Zap, I’m gone. I only hear a song

I tried to sing, but it wouldn’t come out

I slipped out of my body, I was zapped

My friends looked worried but I was happy somehow

I touched a few people but they didn’t even know

I was still there

I touched things in people, but there was no reaction

Ghost hands withered on the piano in the room

The reflection of his past was all around

Friends talking to his mother didn’t even know he was there

They were scared

Candles were lit, the room dreary with cobwebs

The gargoyles were conspirators, echoing voices of the past

The black cat was eating the spider in the web

The mouse was caught in a trap, squeaking, "Ee, ee, ee,