PAUL GRAMS
SAVE ME DREAMS
dont quite know jack bout how world work but damn
in three four dream I had last couple month
learning to fly like Dumbo out with feathered arms
it been a joy to feel dreamworld work fine
gliding and frantic batting like I once
did in five feet of water in Clear lake
this pudgy fellow standing twelve feet
away I must have counted on subconsciously
step to me catch my wrist like nothing dreamlike
then true now rich do jack catch half our all
Paul Grams set out fifty years ago to be a famous writer, never got close, and spent 30 years teaching in the Detroit Public Schools – he kept writing in the basement all these years; he has binders full of poems.