Thanks to progressive radio host (and proud WNYer) Stephanie Miller for the phrase “Stupid O’Clock.” She’s a wonderful antidote to Beck and Rush, along with Ed Schultz and Randi Rhodes… if your city CARRIES progressive radio.
STUPID O’CLOCK STUCK (Writer’s Island past prompt)
Jagged maze
zigzagging from row to row
frenzied search for the Big Cheese
Cheating, skipping lines, flying across the labyrinth
Cornered by repetitions of
jumbled choruses
at stupid o’clock in the
late night of soul’s mourning
My frontal lobe
a lava lamp bursting with I don’t know
Each thought glomming onto the next
Floating in inky blue warmth
Even with the pillow
pulled tight over my head
desperate for sleep, still the sight
Molasses morass glowing
© 2010 Amy Barlow Liberatore/Sharp Little Pencil
Sharp Little Pencil 
Luke Prater
Hi again… hey thanks for the emphatic review and kind words you gave on my blog… lovely to meet you
Warmest regards
Luke @ WordSalad
Sharp Little Pencil
I don’t BS either. I only recommend poets whose work moves me. You have so much heart, Luke. Where/when did you start writing? Any particular muses or moments in life that gave birth to the words that spring forth? Peace, Amy
Jingle
fun piece.
love your entertaining spirits.
Sharp Little Pencil
This is one of my favorite kinds of writing… free-form, random, yet somehow, hopefully, making sense! A
Jingle
http://itistimetothinkformyself.blogspot.com/2010/10/october-birthday-wishes-and-awards.html
in case I forgot, ask you for forgiveness…
Happy Weekend!
Sharp Little Pencil
In case of what? Oh well, I’ll click on the link!!! Happy weekend to you, too, hon. A