Eyewear is very glad to feature a poem today from James Franco's new chapbook, a UK exclusive.
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| James Franco, American Poet |
BLUE BEING
by James Franco
There is a surface
That we all make together
And the wild man
Seems to pop through
Like a line dancer out of step
And others start complaining
That he doesn’t know the moves
And he’s stepping on everyone’s
toes.
There was a man named Mike
Who called my father five times a
day.
You’d hear each burdened voice of
the family
Shout across the house,
Daaad,
it’s Mike.
At dinner my father often
explained
That Mike saw demons.
They spoke to him,
He thought they were real.
I pictured a flaming blue being
Entering the dingy room,
And sitting by Mike
On the gray sheeted bed.
'Blue Being' is from James
Franco's chapbook, Strongest of the
Litter, and appears courtesy of Hollyridge Press .
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