Neil Ellman- Two Poems

My Mind

My mind—

gears and wheels

spindles and wires

neurons on fire

feigning predictability

seeming to be balanced

always on time

in tune

at peace

with the universe—

but not my self.

Sum Ergo Cogito:  Descartes

Comes to His Senses

I think

therefore I am

but what you see

is hardly me

or what I think

or what I am

or what I know

is me

or am

or used to be

or will

you think

you know

who or what

or if

I am

or think

or know

what you think

I know

I think

I know

what I am

or what it is

or think I think

I am

confused

therefore I think—

it’s a better thing

not to think

at all.

Twice nominated for Best of the Net, Neil Ellman lives and writes in New Jersey.  More than six hundred of his poems appear in print and online journals, anthologies, broadsides and chapbooks throughout the world.