Happy days are here again The air is being controlled again The wall is still not built again Happy days are here again Altogether shout it now The Tweeter’s through, who can doubt it now We’re gonna pay our… Read More ›
The Real World
One again rises, having addressed the ages, history and all creation
With phone in hand, not soon from the bathroom With pants neatly cinched and curls not awry After such sitting without discharging After such texting without reflecting O to have enjoyed some peace and quiet O to have… Read More ›
By the time I got to Woodstock
It was an election season And so the candidates and interest groups had their signs along the roadways And my taxi driver said more than once that he wasn’t voting – He didn’t know who to believe. He was… Read More ›
Ballad of a nullfidian
Our buds are growing into earphones And still failing to protect us From noise and demands, requests or distress. Online I find a chemical protection suit with tape double-wrapped, And double storm flaps over zippered access, On top of… Read More ›
You call this a poem?
Or what one learns if one rents a car and it gets a flat tire? It wasn’t just a thought of A’s graying CEO, The bright idea of some young bugle boys at company B – There was… Read More ›
Someone puts “Saxapahaw” in an e-mail and you have to write a poem
In Saxapahaw before the war Boys and girls were locked in remote cabins for weeks And given only toxic plants and rancid meat to eat A surefire way to identify the weak Those who crawled out – if half-crazed, still… Read More ›
L’amour intercontinental, universel
for Tory and A.S. Essential it was that she was a foreigner – Misreading, mistaken and thus so much warmer. And as I from her her was equally estranged – Oh we passed such pleasant, such comfortable days! Younger, she… Read More ›
