Language into Magic by Robert Bulman

I want to be a poet

for all the wrong reasons

to see my name in print

to leave a legacy for my son

to brag to my friends

to bewilder my enemies

to seek immortality

in the poetic after-life

to join an exclusive club

of creative types and hipsters

who always look wiser

and know more than I do

they seem to have more fun

as they go about their day

thinking big thoughts

and turning language

into magic

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Robert Bulman is a professor at Saint Mary's College of California, where poetry seems to hang in the air like smoke. Born in the American Midwest, he grew up in Southern California and then drifted north. He is an emerging middle-aged poet living and working in Northern California