septembers’ songs are only for the chosen
In school yards and their halls-
not for those too thin
too fat, the gimps, the lame
the geeks, the different, the lonely-
not for those whose year of fear
and loathing begins on schools return-
not for those who must learn
survival skills, camouflage
avoiding the radar of the merciless
who hunt them –
not for the introverted who
avoid mirrors without friends
or confidence –
not for the trembling braniacs
whose books are sport
for those too dumb to understand them –
not for the silent poetically inclined
who steal away early,
hiding in their rooms
one more island rock, among
the archipelago of losers
waiting for summer to release them,
behind their fortress of solitude
made of comic books and dreams
that border on the darkness
and the allure of blue gillettes.
Joseph A Farina is a retired lawyer in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. An award winning (Sicily) poet. He draws inspiration from his Sicilian and Canadian roots. Internationally published in Europe and Middle East. first prize in PREMIO CITTA’ DI ARONA 2025, published in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Ascent, Subterranean Blue and in The Tower Poetry Magazine, Inscribed, The Windsor Review, Boxcar Poetry Revue, and appears in the anthologies Sweet Lemons: Writings with a Sicilian Accent, canadian Italians at Table, Witness and Tamaracks: Canadian Poetry for the 21st Century. published in U.S. magazines Mobius, Pyramid Arts, Arabesques, Fiele-Festa, Philedelphia Poets and Memoir and in Silver Birch Press Series. He has had two books of poetry published— The Cancer Chronicles and The Ghosts of Water Street and an E-book Sunsets in Black and White.and his latest book,The beach,the street and everything in between.
