Each day I make my walk <br />Up and down Druid Hills <br />December decks the walk with grinning <br />Snowmen whose plastic carrot noses <br />Breathe no better than mine <br />As I clomp the asphalt and concrete <br />Imagining Immanuel Kant <br /> <br />How should I apply his C I <br />His Categorical Imperative how <br />Universalize my maxims this sun soaked <br />December day as I pass <br />Latinos with ladders and saws <br />Boys walking their dogs <br />Women jogging tits bouncing <br /> <br />The porcelain Santa may hold the answer <br />Beneath his red frock and white beard <br />He pees into a basin he smiles <br />As if his exposure itself is a joy <br />If only he could pee down the chimneys <br />Of those awaiting their gifts <br />Of factories spewing smut and slag <br /> <br />Would Kant today go about his walk <br />Rational and calm contemplating the Noumena <br />Would he masturbate daily as well <br />Space Time and Causality dissolving in his orgasm <br />Where do I walk if I want to feed the hungry <br />Stop the Sa?sara as red with war <br />As Santa's frock <br /> <br />How should I walk my walk <br />How should you as the planet <br />Spins toward doom as avarice <br />Kills hope and as money runs out <br />As oil drips away and we suffocate <br />In our own gases <br />If I carry a sign to city hall <br /> <br />If I vote for a civil rights hero <br />If I write swoon-worthy poetry <br />Or an essay published in Time <br />If I pee down a chimney if I <br />Make love to another human being <br />Will it make a difference <br />Will Kant or Camus save us <br /> <br />I walk my walk <br />Up and down Druid Hills <br />Nod at neighbors who would abhor <br />My feelings and philosophy <br />Pat the dog that howls in the yard all night <br />Alone and alienated as a billion <br />Humans are<br /><br />Jack E Miller<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/talking-my-walk/
