Exits
It's bad all over,
everyone is prone
to a modicum
of bullshit,
and one can finally see
why in the world
another would exchange
a life for living.
But truth can still be found
in the works of Beckett,
Woolf and Borges;
in the poetry of
Williams and Dickinson,
in the music of
Floyd and Tull
and the movies
of Hewitt and Duvall.
In short,
there are portals
of escape available
when the walls
are closing in
and the ceiling
is descending
rapidly, even if
only temporary.
When what's on
the other side (and you)
are completely exhausted,
open another door.
...
Bud R. Berkich was born in
Somerville, NJ and raised in Bound Brook, NJ. He has been writing
creatively since the age of eight. Bud has had poetry, short stories,
plays and prose pieces published at The Idiom, Subliminal Interiors,
Quantum Poetry Magazine, The Analectic, Randomly Accessed Poetics,
Literary Juice, Bareback, Surreal Grotesque and Downer Magazine.
Several book and music reviews and criticisms have appeared on both
Bukisa and Helium.com. Bud is the co-founder and director of the
Bridgewater Poetry Group in Bridgewater, NJ. He currently resides in
Manville, NJ.
