There I go There I go
Derrida Derrida
Lacan at the bodega
Getting a “lucy”.
Heaving garbage down three flights
She recalls reading Hegel
But really wanting to read
Spinoza. That poseur. Oh no,
that was Sartre, one last Calvados
(the bartender had never heard of–alas)
for the boulevard.
(For Erica Hunt)
Patricia Spears Jones is an African American poet and playwright. Her books are The Weather That Kills (Coffee House Press), Femme du Monde and most recently Painkiller both from Tia Chucha Press.
*Photo courtesy of trawin.