My final 2022 NaPoWriMo challenge was to write a cento. This is a poem made up of lines taken from other poems. For my cento, I took lines from various poems in Donkey Gospel and What Narcissism Means to Me, both books of poems by Tony Hoagland.
Heavy Humor
We were drinking beer with the sound off
Greg said that things were better in the sixties
when I was pale and scrawny
and we soar up into the summer stars
but I admit that in the dark
(where a whole life can be mistaken) cavern of that bar
where men throw harpoons at something
costly, beautiful, but secret
jockstraps flew across the steamy
rickshaws gliding through the palace gates,
an act of cruelty which we both understood
the dreams rising from the sleep of children
far out from the coastline of America
a ten-foot sign says, WE WILL NEVER FORGET.
which makes us wonder if Time loves Memory back.
Look both ways (forward to May, back at April) and wonder.
Mind the gaps for those chores left undone.
Our Literary Journey 
That was some night – where jockstraps flew across the steamy rickshaws. How could we forget?
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and now I have coffee all over me thanks to you, Pete. 😀
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I did not use any lines from the poem, “Dickhead,” just to avoid such things, and along comes Peter pondering flying jocks. 🙂
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Tony wrote the kind of poems that make me smile. 🙂
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