Archive for the 'Poetry' Category

Amber Alert

Sunday, March 18th, 2012

They are out there Those that harm children Hidden by their Mothers homes Sitting in dank basements waiting They burn with imagery They taste blood Their hard sex a testament to evil And we watch our babies Riding their bicycles Skipping rope and hopscotch Eyes soaking in the sun While below they wait The laughter […]

Or…

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

You can laugh or you can cry You can stand or sit or lie Or Maybe you just heat up like some pipe coal Give off a stink and some flame and then Nothing but ash Or You can bring your friends Prop ’em up like some shield Baste yourself in their accomplishments Stew in […]

Zombie

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Walking into that haunted house Horror shop thrill ride moment The time slowing and flowing like cooling lava Flash photos in the minds eye as I move with uncanny speed yet Slow so slow Looking for the partner I know is inside As I move through a garage crowded with life’s detritus and the family […]

Wound

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

  If life has been for me a spring Wound round and round Every good deed anchoring me to here and now Every laugh and smile another turn Every brave act Right decision Proud moment Decent outcome Every held hand Closed eye kiss Sense of accomplishment If it has all served to wind me here […]

Vegas Part 8

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

It is so hot Candle flame held one inch below the feet Attic insulation stuffed down the throat Sulfuric acid bath on the te-te’s A microwave oven heating an overheated gray sponge in the think tank Hot I am a grown man and chose to live here in this insufferable shithole stank ass hell WHY […]