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Breakdown

A poem by DB Cox

machine-shaped
beasts of prey
stalk school-day
hallways
like arcade
shooting galleries
caught
in the undertow
of mad
mind-made rivers
of no-return
millions shiver
in shock
on their knees
in front
of big-screen TVs
praying
to primetime
psych-docs
for some on-line
healing
while helpless
reflections
caught
in the glass
of classroom
windows
keep turning pages
hoping
the answer
that might slow
this crazy
breakdown
will show itself soon

DB Cox -- donniebegood@charter.net -- lives in Laurens, S.C. His writing has appeared in Underground Voices, Thunder Sandwich, Dublin Quarterly, Aesthetica, Bonfire, Gator Springs Gazette, Heat City Review, Snow Monkey, Southern Hum, Southern Gothic and others. He has had three books of poetry published: “Passing For Blue,” “Lowdown” and “Ordinary Sorrows.” Main Street Rag has just published his first full-length poetry collection, “Empty Frames”.

Spring 2007 Poetry:

FEATURED POET: Anna Russell
EDITOR'S CHOICE: Deepak Kapur

LAYMEN OF HISTORY by Ananda Osel
A GOOD HIMALAYAN MORNING by Nitin Das Rai
NOW 2 by Leonard Gontarek
WINNING by Miles Christian Daniels
WHITE CLOTHES by Juliet Powys
BREAKDOWN by DB Cox
THE DANCER by Tabitha Anderson
SHADY SMILES by Rikku
THE WOMAN GIRL by Brittany Jungck
A POEM OF THE NIGHT by Michael Lee Johnson