by Rick Young | Jan 17, 2015 | Poem
Better to mistake the facts
than pay the deadly ratter’s tax.
I always felt the better man
when I could keep it in the can.
Big mouths sink ships.
The Fifth is pips.
End to end
your biggest test will be:
can you co-exist this silently.
No machines nor music
will you hear.
Is sound so dear?
Next life you will only
talk in tales, thought bubbles
if everything else fails.
by Rick Young | Jan 16, 2015 | Poem
It’s no good cooking meat now,
when the universe is fasting.
Surrounded by a tripwire,
either way there’s blasting.
Some folks fear the cowboys’ pride
enhancing man’s undoing.
The trees that whisper sweet consent
betray explosion brewing.
by Rick Young | Jan 15, 2015 | Poem
All the world’s a speeding dot on someone’s radar gun.
We’re the moving pieces of the television son.
Dejection chords obtain unholy vim in trumpet layers.
Competing shirt and shoe ads vie intensively for players.
Chemicals and bullets have weighed down the paper ship.
Please go to your local drugstore for a scripted tip.
General Hysteria has wed Major Depression.
Their poison logo tears have now translated this recession.
Revenge tattoos have patented the talon.
Hurtful death’s now packaged by the gallon.
by Rick Young | Jan 14, 2015 | Poem
Put big money down upon the favorite,
only givin’ two.
Late game bad calls turned it to a close one,
as they often do.
Down a point, they had to foul our scorer,
sent him to the stripe.
Three ticks left, he calmly swished the first shot,
then he took the pipe.
I was praying, screaming for a tap-in,
but it was too late.
Once again my boys had left me hangin’.
Watched ’em celebrate.
by Rick Young | Jan 13, 2015 | Poem
Bloody Mary, money maker,
queen of under cutters:
pepper my tomato heart,
until its beat flutters.