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Code Words: John Korduba
John Korduba is the poet for people who are bored by poetry. “Each poem is a soft tipped arrow aimed to brush past your funny bone and then bounce off your verse averse heart,” he says. As one of our Code Word contributors, the author of Everybody Gets Lost in Brooklyn will share his unique musings on life in NYC. Prepare to be tickled, New York.
Distraction
The branch brushes against the window
making me look
but is it the branch that seeks my attention
or the wind
using the branch as its agent?
To play it safe
I assume that they’re
both
trying to bug me.
Park With Swans
This morning before work
I stopped by a
park with swans
shook off their morning dew and
picked up their briefcases and
marched to the office
leaving me behind to
glide smoothly on the lake
all day
all day
all day long
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Code Words: John Korduba
John Korduba is the poet for people who are bored by poetry. Read his poems “Barter” and “Cleaning Day.”
My Taxi Ride
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Code Words: John Korduba
Read the poems Distraction and Park With Swans from “Everybody Gets Lost in Brooklyn”.
I like the Park With Swans…..reminds me of something nostalgic…old memories.
Good Work John!
Thanks for writing in Vanessa. There will be more of John’s poems coming up in Code Words – so please keep checking back!
Park Swans is a nice moment.
Today, we need as many of these moments as we can get.
jack ames