Poets Kaczmarczyk, Kell for Writers Guild Sept. Last Sunday

The weather offered a pleasant, warm late September night for The Bloomington Writers Guild’s Last Sunday Poets at Morgenstern Books, with Massachusetts-raised, cat-appreciative Peter Kaczmarczyk, with work in over eighty magazines and anthologies as well as three chapbooks, to start with a largely domestic-tuned sheaf of offerings, the last from his third chapbook COULD HAVE GOTTEN A CAT titled, in fact, “Fat Shame a Cat.” He was followed by multi-talented, long-time Bloomingtonian Bruce Kell with work somewhat more ironic in tone in places up to and including a mock-heroic quartet, “The Sad Story of Lothario,” but also with more benign reminiscences and ending, too, on a pleasant tone.

This was followed by nine or so “open-mic” readers of which I was third, with a 10-line poem based on a “Third Sunday Write” prompt from August, “Bounty,” which (as with last month’s) is unlikely to be published by any third party. So here it is now:

Bounty, gee that’s where they had
the mutiny wasn’t it? Bounty, Tennessee
as I remember. They were always doing mutinies
in Bounty those days — kept the tourist trade
excited.
In fact, I remember one mutiny they had —
a protest or something about paper towels.
Wiped out the whole city!
(They don’t get much tourist trade these days,
however.)