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A young schoolboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the bus The boy was filled with questions about what was all the fuss. He’d picked his clothes and shined his shoes. He thought he looked … Read more
A young schoolboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the bus The boy was filled with questions about what was all the fuss. He’d picked his clothes and shined his shoes. He thought he looked … Read more
Hair Drumpf has got abortion in his sights. He will continue smashing voting rights. His followers believe in resurrection. They have no real reality connection. They plan another big D.C. to-do. Steve Bannon calls it … Read more
Texas got things all out of proportion. Need a person swing for an abortion? Bounty hunting fetus crime? They are going back in time, Christians stalking med providers as if they were freedom riders, shutting … Read more
Unnecessary complication That’s my occupation I take a situation And offer it striation It’s better than stagnation In some ways a vacation Above all confirmation Of the pattern of this nation Celebrating ostentation With a dog-eat-dog … Read more
The unfinished poet never learned to cross his tees. One never knew if they were ells or was it meant to tease. Sometimes subbed stars for vowels or used periods as names. His sentences only … Read more
Count Basie was the counterpoint to Kenny Rogers’ ‘Gambler.’ Clarence Williams III was by far ‘Mod Squad’s’ greatest scrambler. Kasey Musgraves minus fifty is Jackie DeShannon. Usain Bolt runs like a colt who’s shot out … Read more
I’m spending all my coin on protein drinks. If you haven’t got your energy, for sure this hard life stinks. You gotta get up early and then make your scheduled rounds. Feed the cat, walk … Read more
I had them Day After Funeral Blues. Dressed up in cold black shoes. Dark in the whitened apse. Stretching a long time lapse. She was and now she’s ashes. We had our times and bashes. … Read more
Lies, cries the CultPopNet’s new news nose, The Knews Knows. Standing with his ego and a firehose, shooting out wet prisms and some rainbows. While around him bruised waves circle, seeking optimum ways the world flows. … Read more
The rainbow bridge has melted in its wake. The overwhelmed face more than they can take. The clown car’s screaming downhill with no brake. There is no sense of what is real or fake. The multiplicities … Read more
Our circus is bedeviled by old age. An elephant fell dead while up on stage. The dancing bears all have a limp. A poor kid got slapped by our chimp. Our giraffe’s cut back to … Read more
Send the rich to space. It’s their kind of place. No vile madding crowd. No critics allowed. Billionaires in flight, passing in the night. Screw the earth and taxes. They’re the new cash axis. Those … Read more
Low sodium and sugar free. The two important facts for me. No candies, cookies, cake, ice cream. I’m stuck in a starvation dream. No Mars, no Mounds, no Almond Joy. Three Musketeers have lost this … Read more
My heart is like an engine that just runs on stolen gas. Doc says the result’s from years of eating like an ass. I’ve quit the drink and cut way back on both sugar and salt. Cuts … Read more
This wouldn’t have to happen if we raked our forest floors. Now the Oregon/Cal border’s only good for cooking smores. Fire waves and furnace heat are bouts of climate change. It ‘s irony but adds a … Read more
Police in Greece find a stolen Picasso. And throw in an ought-five Mondrian. Matt Gaetz, talks CRT; he’s such an asshole. And Syrian air strikes link to Iran. Walmart low priced insulin today’s perk. Britney … Read more
(Note from the author’s son: Below is a snippet from one of our email exchanges in June 2021. I felt compelled to share this mention of a title for a poem.) Weight down to 179 … Read more
Another long sword’s been unsheathed against the darts of reason. Again, we’ve wept. Once more we’ve grieved. It comes round every season. When power rules with sharpened tools, there’ll always be some clashing. The constant … Read more
The world is at a standstill. There is no such thing as time. Every inch into the modern world’s considered blatant crime. On the fulcrum of extinction, we are balanced on a peak. It may all … Read more
I’ve been booked for a holiday in hell, whose soundtrack is a constant ringing bell. Each meal, exactly same, and sleep, a losing game. If there’s an escape route, no one will tell. The personnel … Read more