Grocery Store by Doug Holder

  *** For Allen Ginsberg

Who wept in the lettuce?
Who bludgeoned the chuck roast?
Who walked down the soup line
like Andy Warhol?
Who squeezed the avocado
for a green plume of passion?
Who tried to save the lobster
from its Auschwitz tanks?
Who held the pale flesh
of the Halibut
to his or her beckoning breast?
Who will
 unfreeze
 all this ice? 

 

Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press, and the co-president of the New England Poetry Club.

 Co-President of the New England Poetry Club

Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene   http://dougholder.blogspot.com

Ibbetson Street Press  http://www.ibbetsonpress.com

Poet to Poet/Writer to Writer  http://www.poettopoetwritertowriter.blogspot.com

Doug Holder CV http://www.dougholderresume.blogspot.com

Doug Holder's Columns in The Somerville Times
https://www.thesomervilletimes.com/?s=%22Doug+Holder%22&x=0&y=0
Doug Holder's collection at the Internet Archive  https://archive.org/details/@dougholder