My Yoko Ono Moment by David Trinidad

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for Nick Twemlow It’s annoying how much junk mail comes through the slot & accumulates at the foot of the stairs mostly menus from restaurants in the neighborhood endlessly coming through the slot despite the sign we put on the door: No Advertisements No Solicitors One night I scoop up the whole pile on my way out (as I do periodically) & dump it in the trash can on the corner of West Broadway & Spring just as Yoko Ono happens to be strolling through SoHo with a male companion She watches me toss the menus then turns to her friend & says, “I guess no one reads those.”            Copyright @ 2014 by David Trinidad . Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “At a dinner for the poet Nick Twemlow after he read at Columbia College, Yoko Ono came up in conversation. I told my anecdote about her, then said, ‘I guess it’s not much of an anecdote.’ But Nick liked it, and that prompted me to turn it into a poem and dedicate it to him.” —David Trinidad   David Trinidad is the author of numerous poetry collections, the most recent of which is Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera (Turtle Point Press, 2013).  He teaches at Columbia College and lives in Chicago, Illinois. Most Recent Book by Trinidad   Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera (Turtle Point Press, 2013) “Brad Pitt” by Aaron Smith “Mostly Mick Jagger” by Catie Rosemurgy “The Lower East Side of Manhattan” by Victor Hernández Cruz Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038