The Cooler King The meaning of life can sometimes be found In the back seat of a Ford On a drive-in Saturday night Not watching a movie you paid good money to see That you wouldn't watch for free If it came on T.V. or On a blanket in a forest meadow Beside a babbling brook Oblivious to the mosquitos biting your ass Poison ivy itching starting a rash Heat, humidity and chiggers in the grass or In a hole In the ground Awaiting the sound Of a key In a lock Braced for the shock Of sunlight after so many days of darkness. Free Verse One The flatiron days of dogged August Sink with tarpit slowness Into the rustling shimmer of autumn While I'm Falling down The up staircase Of life in hyperdrive Bopping to the oldies Learning from the newbies I try to synthesize a disguise, A more practical tack or plan of attack While enroute to the third millennium Working when I should sleep Sleeping when I should learn Fatigue, so chaotic and narcotic Draws my identity into infinity What did Chaucer mean by lim f(x)= L? Did anyone get the number of that truck?

Chuck Hocter earned a B.A. in Creative Writing at Central Missouri State University. Two of his plays, Stiffy's Wake and Nellie's Place, were produced by Central's Black Box Theatre. He and his wife live in Centerview.


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