My Ground Hog's Day

 

It’s Ground Hog’s Day over and over again.

I’ve read this poem before, several times

in fact, one of Bukowski’s drunken rants.

I know the lines I’m reading, even know

where he’s going before I reach the end.

But you see I have this problem with ADD

dyslexia, and I can’t memorize or repeat

the words verbatim. Thank God.

Having that heavy psychotic weight on my

mind, and thinking about it over and again,

would drive me bat shit crazy. So, half way

there already, I close the book and go on.

                    -30-

Chris Hanch 9-3-2020