Halloween – A Love Poem
Here was I, young, supple, firm to the touch, And, oh, how I longed for the warm caress of your hand. You took me in, yet, you have wounded me, my love. The anguished and distorted smile I wear is the...
View ArticleI Wouldn’t Change A Thing
If I could see into the future, What would my crystal ball say? Well, my crystal ball is broken, So I threw that ball away. ‘Cause we cannot see all ends, Will we just accept what we can take? Brave...
View ArticleBig City
Take a look at my big city, it sometimes seems too much to bear. I look at times in your empty eyes. and I wonder if any love’s still there. ‘Cause time and again you said you’d go, and leave me in my...
View ArticleYeeowll
I have seen the lesser minds of my generation, rise up in protest against foes real or imagined. A people who are bound by nothing beyond their own self-interest in the name of the patron saint of...
View ArticleRuminations of a Right-Wing Recidivist Reactionary – An Ode to Idiots
I wonder what they’re eating in Somalia I wonder if they pick the sand out of their food I wonder if they would mind if we crash the party I wonder if they would think we’re being rude. I hear the...
View ArticleAllegorically Metamorphosizing
I used to be proud of my gun, I cleaned it and shot it each day. But when I saw what others had, I looked at my gun with dismay. For my gun was well-used, It had been used quite a lot. And I had steady...
View ArticleWaddle ‘Round the Wadi
Here is a little ditty I wrote as a faux Gilbert and Sullivan show tune. If the metre seems a bit strained, it’s because the music’s changing time signatures are tortuous! It works, believe me. So here...
View ArticleLive Performance
Stand on the stage through the blinding lights. See the camera phones waving and the people who paid to see aren’t watching me at all. And I take comfort knowing that later on in social media the video...
View ArticleTill We Meet Again
When I was younger, I called my mother “Momma”; I think all of us kids did at one time. Sandra Kay TuckerAugust 28, 1939 – October 26, 2016 She was a compassionate person, a caring person, an...
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