BLACK MARKET LIT
About Stanley Noah.
Relativity, milkyways, black holes and all other stuff
STANLEY NOAH has a degree from the University of Texas at Dallas, and has been published in the following: Verse Wisconsin, B.O.D.Y., Main Street Rag, South Carolina Review, Poetry Nottingham, and other publications in the U.S.A., Britain, Canada and New Zealand. He spends free time watching old black and white movies and drinking gallons of coffee into the night. He classifies his poetry as general prose, from dark to funny.
Gravitation rules all. Emily Dickinson called it, the flood suction. Next door neighbor believes life and objects are mostly down to earth, except the human mind. He said,
"we just go about
mopping it up. I call it the theory of everything. Stephen Hawking is still working on this symphony." So I asked him, "what about
quantum mechanics, is that sort of like a loud cantata
like a car wreck on a saturday night beneath
faIIing stars?
Or is it like string theory all wrapped up in tissue paper tied with
a pink ribbon or like rooms connected by sun light going through
opened doors?" Looking puzzled,-he said, "I don't know.
Ask your barber or the bartender or the cook.
If anyone should
know it would be them."
I began peeling away zones of the inner mind like one big history lesson. Searching about the hidden places. Turning all
skeleton keys. Making darkness turn the other way.