"Some Art" & "Separation of Powers" - from "Burning Man" by Marc Meierkort

Some Art

makes me want to quit. 

Poetry gives me a choice 

of sooner or later. I believe 

sooner to be better if for no 

other reason than I forget 

stuff like that one time 

I plum forgot to sleep—

O man was it great.

So fucking great.

Separation of Powers

Change may be constant 

but I believe some things

should stay the same like

the separation of church

                          and state. Scripture says 

                          God watches over us for 

signs of sin. That may be

true but he doesn’t know

               what Heisenberg knows:

               watching is a two-way 

street. Seeing follows 

                             the fall. Absent a net 

the wide-angle shot 

legitimizes the split.

Marc Meierkort is the author of the chapbook Break in Case of Glass (Bottlecap Press). He is Managing Editor for Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose.  A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, his work has appeared in BlazeVOX Journal, Roi Faineant, and The Argyle Literary Magazine, among others. He teaches at Columbia College Chicago.