This book contains three poems by Ben Belitt entitled Graffiti, Sumac and Possessions.
Graffiti addresses self-identity and making one’s mark in the world. It is about artist and ego, aggression and anger. It carries the message “SOMEBODY LISTEN!”. It is about not being heard.
Sumac is the most autobiographical of the poems, speaking of potent dreams and memories of the past, of life’s contrasts between beauty and the grotesque.
Possessions is about the material world. The poem is told in the first person through the eyes of a deceased Egyptian boy pharaoh who is embalmed in his tomb surrounded by treasures. He is waiting for the tomb robbers. The poem ends, “What have we ever possessed?”
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