When the do re mi says so By Tony Pena

I carry a tune 

like a baggage handler

thrashing Samsonites

in a cargo bay of a 747 

bound for the long cold 

cavern clubs of the UK,

but if I could find me

an auto tune on the cheap

on Craigslist or EBay,

maybe one day my vocal

cords can quiver enough 

to convince the part of you,

gliding like Ginger Rogers 

within the black and white 

of your room with the lights 

from Top Hat’s numbers

shimmering off the TV set

at three in the morning,

to lose the China white

into that deep black hole

within porcelain, for though

I’m surely more Fred

Flintstone than Astaire,

maybe just maybe, the ball

of melody bouncing along

my ribs, rises from the tune 

like a fiery strawberry moon, 

bold enough to serve the staff

as a sanguine beat far too catchy

for what’s left of you not to follow. 

Tony Pena was formerly 2017-2018 Poet Laureate for the city of Beacon, New York.  

His new book of poetry, Triad, is now available on Amazon

His prose and poetry have found refuge recently with 101 Words, Alien Buddha Press, Cajun Mutt Press, Dear Booze, Death Wish Poetry, Fevers of the Mind, Mono, Odd Magazine, The Erozine, The Literary Underground, The Lotherian Poetry Journal, Trailer Park Quarterly, and Witcraft.

 Also, Best of the Net nominations in 2019 from the Rye Whiskey Review and the Dope Fiend Daily.

A volume of poetry and flash fiction, "Blood and Beats and Rock n Roll," is available at Amazon.  

A chapbook of poetry, "Opening night in Gehenna," is available from author.

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