G.M.H. Thompson – Cajun Mutt Press

The Man Who Is A Planet

He is the man who is a planet, orbiting
whichever stars are blind enough to never see
his sinister attempts to steal their gravity—
a shadow of a shadow is a truer thing
than stolen rays he boasts are his authentic light,—
reflections from the stellar entities he vamps;
I know that if he ever found Aladdin’s lamp,
three wishes wouldn’t fulfill half his appetites.

I let him join my band & be our lead guitar,
although I sensed his tenure wouldn’t last much time;—
he told me honestly, he thought we’d surpass KISS,
& that, after some show, a man smoking cigars
would magically appear & beg for us to sign
a million-dollar deal, as if those still exist.

G.M.H. Thompson recently bought a Gibson Les Paul for 13,500,000 Dong, so I guess you could say things are getting pretty serious. You should totally buy this right now: https://www.amazon.com/Quetzalcoatl-G-M-H-Thompson/dp/B0CH2CXSM7

The Lost Boys

They are the Lost Boys— they are the boys null & void:
“The Singer,” “The Songsmith,” “The Artist,” “The Poet,”—
if fake jobs were real jobs, they each would be employed.
They gather together past one in the morning
& talk in low moans about how it’s all so hard
living on their daddy’s dollar in the houses
that their daddies bought for them— the “Future” is just
a word to them, a myth in some foreign language.

There is no Neverland, Peter Pan, & Wendy
left you for another man, ’cause you’re just a boy;
best try your luck with Tiger Lily before she
meets someone else or disappears like Tinker Bell.
We all know you can’t really fly & Captain Hook
will be avenged, despite what’s said in children’s books.

G.M.H. Thompson has been published in a number of publications that few people have read or even heard of. They have a chapbook out, Yard Sale at the Devil’s Petting Zoo, that maybe 30 people have leafed through. Thompson was also nominated for a Pushcart once, but didn’t win.

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