Blank Verse Sonnet Concluded by a Pure Rhyme and an Impure Rhyme

What happens when I win is what the movie
Said happens what the video okay
Said TheCreation of a Unified
Reich
that’s what happens what     does that mean reich
It’s German they have done     tremendous things
That’s all it means     it’s German like the Ger
-man word     for country we are gonna be
One country you America you know
You know     what one means one means no more jobs
Will go to immigrants one means our troops will
Clean up the border unified that’s one
You hear it     one in the un one country un
Country I win one reich a thousand years
From now they won’t believe what happened here

Petrarchan Sonnet on the Electrified Sea

Picture a boat     whatever boat a yacht
Okay real big     don’t picture a canoe
No two     -man fishing boat the     sky is blue
Beautiful day     no clouds     and it’s just hot
Enough you’re shirtless on the deck     you’ve got
A Diet Coke on the table next to you
Sweating     the can looks beautiful a new
One and the pretty     stewardess right brought
It smiling you’re about to drink it     but
The yacht is green folks     powered by a bat
-tery a huge one     and it sinks     now what’
Cause there’s a shark too sharks like sun too that
Shark’s tan lean hungry you    get eaten or
Get fried    who’s left to save the planet for.

Building and Farther Plume Seen from a Train

The plume as tall as taller than the building
How far a mile     apart each     each or now
I’m passing them I’m closer now they might be
Three miles apart     the building from the plume
The plume distinct because it is a building
Flying     it is a cloud refusing sleep
Most of its body     from the base up till
The head assents     and sways     and drifts away
Plume of waste seen     from the train but from the train
From farther off the plume had seemed to rise
Beside the building and I had to guess
The mile but as I passed was     watching passed
They stepped themselves unchanged apart     the space
Between them changed the angle of the plume’s
Head I could see it     better tilted more
Dramatically away than I had thought
As if against the wishes of its body
The head would lie back down on     the earth would dream
That had once been a part of the earth     before
Being ground to bits or pounded flat or shredded
Then burned     then burned     then burned     because no soul
Escapes     the smoke is not a soul escaping
I do not see souls flashing in the smoke
But even so     I see the physical
Beauty of the plume     of waste the dreaming head
Reclining yet reclining     to become
More cloud     but whiter than a cloud     soft wind
Brushing away a mesa made of sugar
Sky shining through the feathered edges     sugar
Bleached white with bone char white as bone can bleach it

John Doe
Poet, Independent Writer
IN CONVERSATION WITH
Shane McCrae