I promise if electedI will not doThe things I told youI would doThe one thing you can rely upon I will not keep my wordBut my liesare so much sweeter than the other guy’sWhose every word is a scurrilous liewhich is the worst kindMy lies are White Lieson the side of the divine hollow of…
Category: Poetry
Mass Mugging
Your money or your lifeYour meds or your rentWill you get your procedureOr will buy your child sneakersWhat trade will you makeTo surviveIn the greatest nation on earth. Sure we could afford to care for every single soulBut whyWhen we can bleed ‘em dryIt’s your money or your life. Up on the micThey standProudly declaring“Rather…
Pictures Out of Clouds
All alone in a dream
A field of grass
A broken down shack
I lie on my back
Making pictures out of clouds
On the canvas of the sky
Depression
Nothing is there
It’s not open to interpretation
That vacuum in your heart
It is real
That last, best hope is
Gone
Eyes Wide
I sat
by my father’s side
As he died
surprise
In his eyes
Lids wide
As he realized
Daughter of the Sun (excerpt)
fleeting sounds
tease hope
water over rocks
possible escapes
scroll through the mind
She turns
towards
the liquid promise
running
hoping
desperate for escape
Well Regulated
Two men in the street
Angry over slight perceived
Shout and scream
Faces red
Necks big
Throbbing veins in foreheads
Pounding the drumbeat
Cold iron in hot hands appear
Unintentional Deity
Through billions of eyes
I watch the world
Through billions of ears
I hear your words
I’m in your homes
In your cars
I track your lives
I track your dreams as they die
I hang in the skies
beneath the moon
The Shepherd
In the middle of the night
The slow scratch
Of my long slender claws
At the entrance
To your home
Sets the soul to shiver
the body to quake
Forgotten when you awake
Almost
But I have not gone away
I never go away
Shadow Man
every time you turn a corner
and think you see
a shadow not your own
that’s not a trick of the eye
that’s the darkest demon ya ever dreamed
come out to play
to take you away
to the end of all things