Archive for March, 2012

Sweet Sam

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

Sweet sweet Sam Warrior Sam I was green as a blade of grass New cop Rook Puppy Wide eyed and wondering at the darkest corners of the night when I met Sergeant Sam He was such the mentor Teaching the cop way The right way The warrior way We flew the night and conquered evil […]

Cafe Roma

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

Welcome to the Free You stand pissing in the same world as Freaks and Soldiers Cops and Strangers Beatnik Preacher Homosexual Revolutionaries You drop water with Kings and Devils Whores and UPS men The Exalted and The truly evil The likes of You pass time And Wind here Along with Doctors and Lawyers and Artists […]

Booze Rant

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

Fighting back the Urge To purge these words and Erase myself again Is uphill or bigger at times But I sit and type anyway Denying the frailty I face on a Blank page The sadly sad sad paper glaring white and Unmarked But for these mad ravings The alcohol blurring my Art like Smeary skies […]

For Bobby

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

We walk through the world Not showing the fear that boils down under Putting on the brave face and Striding into the darkest night Kissing our worried wives or husbands or lovers They may not say it but they feel it as they watch us Ensconcing ourselves in Kevlar vests And leaving for they pray […]

A Tribute to Blood Meridian (for Cormac McCarthy)

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

Every time I shut my eyes I see the same blood washed visage Babies whose skulls have been crushed by Mother’s maul Vagrants torn and dead in the street Jagged bits of glass glinting in exposed neck ligaments Old ladies pushed down stairs until their bodies become an unrecognizable old mess Quivering on the landing […]