poetry
of sorts. yeppers. i write poetry. who doesn't? i've been published in a several books (including i'm afraid to say some online books, which really don't count much on your resume, but at least they weren't those insipid collections you have to pay to get into, but generally my past history isn't very impressive at all) and have had a couple chapbooks (indy published poetry collections) done. jack's club and exxon bag of photos are both long out of print (since the printings were only 250 each, that isn't too surprising except that i could find that many non relatives willing to read my work). also i won a bunch of prizes with several orgs, including the texas poetry society. i only mention that out of sheer pride. they are copy written, but i doubt they're worth stealing, so who cares. read 'em & weep, steal 'em if you want 'em. property is theft. no one owns anything, particularly not language. in fact, i would be damn flattered if someone swiped these. delighted even. send me your poems if you'd like. i love all types of written word, and would adore a slight glimpse at who you really are, even through your words. i'll even reprint them here if you want, with your name and all. i will certainly enjoy whatever you send. of that i have no doubt.

i adhere to no set type of meter or structure. i free form all the way. if you like rhyming poems, you are in the wrong place. my apologies. some don't have titles either. sorry again. i just outlined the first few words and hope that will suffice.

the poems
last supper
cannibalistic sacrament as
ritual & we feasted on the flesh
of our saviour & sup on his
                          blood
                delectable
if you are what you eat am i jesus?
trust
joke to the blind man about
rearranging furniture in his absence
he grins & goes forward certain i
hadn't one day when i finally
manage to outgrow my few ethics
maybe i will that will teach
him about trust i wager
ghost
the ghost of xmas was some
hulking monstrosity reeking
of cinnamon its huge malformed
shoulders were discarded aluminium trees
blinking light cords in knots hung down
from its heavy head like
the snake coils of medusa body
formed of broken toys sprawled under
it an ugly squatting reptile spotted with
crumpled wrapping paper holiday cards
sent to business clients smattered with
meaningless clichés the mess wept tears
of excess & left a trail of spent credit cards
in its wake & i merely stepped aside to give
it berth as it shambled
by giving silent thanks i was an agnostic
xmas resulted in massive guilt related spending
during which everyone endeavoured to purchase
enough in one month to make up for the other eleven
the amazing thing about ghud is
how does one go about razing cities
burning villages & transforming people into
pillars of salt then turn around & give
me 10 commandments bastard
must be republican
1:22 am thursday morning
dining on chrunchberries & soda i
watch cartoons as the kid
uses two plastic laundry baskets to
cage angels whom he feeds pecans
i do not doubt his word
at all
abducted
check out my pal he says
he's been abducted regressive
hypnotherapy dredged up age old
memories of being taken & probed
possibly violated under bright lights
too bright to see past obscuring
all but shadows & he jumps at
sounds talking about aliens
conspiracy & government cover ups
my pal obsessing on ufos
ebes men in black & i listen & wonder
if not martians then who took
my pal & screwed up his brain
& why not me i watched
star trek bought their damn
toys why not me
kerouac
jack kerouac
bottles at your feet
how many did you have to down
to mire in their beat
no
no birthday no date no day
what is today what day is it what
these hands not mine definitely not
too big remember they smaller
reaching
            for what         what day was it
reaching         for what             reaching
what day is it         who's typing this
whose hands are these anyway
                               what is today
                                          anyway
ghud
interestingly enough when the insects clamoured to life still clinging
to their life sustaining ichor a great intelligence made note of them
their presence & stench & lo it bestowed upon them the
cursed gift of language & as soon as they got the hang
of their new-found literacy the insects clicked their multifaceted
eyes open & closed & got down to the nitty
gritty of name calling back biting & rumour mongering
so the infinite wisdom took back its boon & instead
favoured it to the huge lumbering dinosaurs that
roamed the continents shortly thereafter the cold blooded
creatures exhibited the same foul tendencies as the insects
having become somewhat irritated by this time the
universal knowledge made them extinct & passed it on
to the primates who scurried among the ruins of the saurapods
he/she who is the most wonderful & dreadful preserver of all
has retired to the crab nebulae & would be very cross at the
notion that the damn monkeys were even a worse
choice than the bugs & lizards
electronic hand held yahtzee
my abductee pal sat on the couch
& played electronic hand held yahtzee
ignoring me & the short hairy guy i know
who protects me & the kid & we wondered
(he & i) what we did to offend
(if we did) but he's ignoring us sitting
on the couch playing electronic hand held yahtzee
so we started talking between the two
of us (since he's ignoring us) for awhile
till we realize he's not playing
anymore & he's watching us instead
looking all pouty & i ask him if we offended him
(since he's ignoring us) & he said no
we're ignoring him & i shrug & the short
hairy guy says it's all in the way yo perceive
things while you're ignoring them & then
my abductee pal got offended & went back to
playing electronic hand held yahtzee
coma
god not dead god in coma so says
prophet in london fog leering past smoke
obscuring sad features weary worn good jaw
line roman nose bleary eyes comatose
people never talk hardly blink knew guy in
coma go catatonic myself sometimes when
necessary gods not sleeping talk at him
with him often definitely not dead
unless speaking beyond grave some
people too cynical for their own good
while he talked
concave image withdrawing the populace stands alone
gaping wounds open the dilapidated shack collapsing
woe despair the king is dead & elvis' desiccated corpse
left the building his trademark pelvic thrust
causing bits of flesh to trail him
hungry street waifs fight souvenir hunters to
gather the leprous remains & eat them ravenously
life in the city continues merchants tossed
out by pawn brokers huddle on steam belching
grates taxi drivers dead at the wheel overdosed on
heroin needles still in their arms veins bulging
crash into street lights which fall onto screaming hookers
the impact knocking the sequins off their tube tops
& nuns - walking by & tisking haughtily- trip
down the waiting stairs of the subway
rolling down habits flying under the wheels
of speeding trains splattering uniformed schoolchildren
with organs & gore the children in turn screech
madly with joy tearing their clothes from their tiny frames
& run naked into the tunnels going back to the
warm embrace of the dark while the janitor watches
humourlessly & sweeps up the remains
every word i say is suspect so i am silent
my silence is miscontrused so i smile
smiling is telling so i stop
stoicism is the same as ignoring so i am back to talking
every word i say is suspect so i'm back to
square one
on the subject of pomposity
i write to people who cannot spell
i read to people who cannot hear
i pander to people who are
of little conscience and no soul
a bust of a woman falls and shatters
i sweep her up
she can be glued
i however cannot
i don't want mending i want improvement
i don't want succour i want healing
i don't want spoon feeding i want knowledge
pieces of statuary pierce my feet
she is undone
i am unbound
 
can you hear the cat's cries as the car impacts her flesh
were her last thoughts of mice or milk or mates
could it matter now that she's quelled, alone and
battered, broken on the road not a purr in her passing
and i too am crushed like the cat
but i keep walking
perhaps i am bitter to have been widowed so young
perhaps i am arrogant to find love again
perhaps i'm merely bidding my time before i find succour in dark embrace
perhaps i write only to be writing
but perhaps i'm hoping in writing someone will read
and just maybe understand
perhaps i'm just hoping for more than reasonable
i don't understand myself
 
jesus wept
for what?
himself?
his tormentors?
his followers?
the thought of al the iconic crap they would sell
at the place of his death
in 2000 years
to souvenir hunting tourists?
will a snow globe saviour
help me find spiritual depth?
will a statue commemorating
his agony make me feel his end?
or will it syphon into the pockets
of capitalists, unhurried by his passing?
and at 3 for $1, do i really care?
a pagan made rosaries and sold them to atheistic goths
who was really more of a hypocrite?
the pagan, as she pandered to a religion she did not embrace as her own?
the goths for wearing a symbol of something they could never truly grasp?
the catholics for making an icon of an implement of torture?
or perhaps we can chalk it up to fashion.
fashion has many victims.
take that fat guy on your left.
the cat is clawing the door jam.
he needs out out out
he is trapped in the room with a busted leg
and he doesn't care what is for his own good he wants out
who am i to dictate to a feline anyway
mend the leg let him go and he'll stray no more
until the next good piece of pussy saunters by
if you write enough pabulum,
someone is bound to pay attention.
if you make it sound fancy,
they may even buy what you're selling,
be it a telly, turban or torment.
the word has powers of coercion
even the biggest thug may envy,
as it can be more persuasive than his fist
by far.
another day wanes my mind far away
electrons collide and my thoughts slip again
my hands cannot hold the needle it seems
how will i get my fix who will ease my pain the flocked nun grim visaged bitch of god
my co worker watching the clock the service guy at wal mart glaring angrily at his shoes
or will i have to complicate things by actually starting a real drug habit instead of
day dreaming about one it would be so hip
yet expensive
perhaps i best just watch soaps

 tangible the hand is tangible as it grabs for my hair to caress it then rend it
as he holds me above a chasm, he reaches under my bloody shirt and touches me
below i can hear my father screaming at me what's wrong what wrong
he can see my feet kicking but nothing more
as i'm held aloft by my hair
and the metal hand is not cold and
i stare into his one red eye and know one
day some day he'll kill me or worse
but today i slice his face then i drop down the shaft
i know now gravity works alice did not have such hazards
mad as a march hare
           was he really mad or just mean?
could i pity him for a moment knowing what i knew
          but no
  he was made of metal and flesh and yet
      he lacked a soul                          but what say i of it
                              i sold mine yon ago
 for a morsel of affection and
                                   a mouthful of stones
in the hole her bones lie
askew from where she fell
cj clawed unhappily at the sides of her cell
down in the endless maw
they threw her in a well
ding dong dell pussy's in the well
corned beef mutton pies
that which does not kill us
for god so loved the world
give  me your poor
operators are standing by
four score and seven years ago
matter is relative to anti matter
whispers torn from pages and
assembled like a tinman, like frankenstein's
monster, like a golem
mark it with your letter and let it breathe
until the sabbath's sundown
when you will destroy it
or it will destroy you
men do beastly things to babes
and the women stand idly by
until they get into the act as well
not so separate from males now
drowning their kin frail struggles
shooting them sleeping
poisoning their gruel
and are they monsters
haven't i dreamt of the same scenario,
only lacked the courage to do it
i would raze a world for you
i have killed thousands  for you
i have laughed heartily at fools
all over you
and you say nothing
your lips do not twitch
nor your eyes falter
your hands are unmoving now as ever
you are music
and i am static
it was if a beast were unleashed, hunted and hungry it prowled
looking for a phrase to coin the empty pit in its belly
a word to voice the pain in its limbs
a hand to soothe the void of its soul
gangly it staggered on thorny grounds
stretched itself forward in a lunge
crashed dead at the feet of its tormentors,
like a dog to its owner
the creature knew nothing but loathing and pain
its universe
and let beckon that embrace one last time
an invisible child clung to her back and wept into her ears
of hunger and hurt
no one could see her but she clung there
like a junkie's monkey, their horse on smack
the little girl stayed and clung to her back
no escape no exit no cease nor quiet
the child rambled on to her charge
she could've left it at any point
on any corner at a church
and yet she heaved on, struggling each day
to tote the girl about as it screeched
wind too cold
burden too heavy
food too salty
and what did the woman do but continue
nurture and suckle her unseeable burden
until it grew and left her for brighter shores,
having drained her mount of everything
the woman, alone in despair
spotted another at the bus stop, and
stole it from the arthritic spine
of an elderly man who called into the night after her
as she ran with the bundle
bring it back
bring it back
bring my baby back
but they were gone into the night
and he mourned the loss of his burden
unaware he'd already grown another
when i was a kid i built a fort out of couch cushions
i was the queen of my domain
peering from between my sturdy brick walls
until my brother kicked it over
then i was homeless, less than a squire more of a squatter
ohs the shame
now i build forts out of space
the more between me
and them
the better
i want space and fences and walls and bars
the more the better
until someone kicks it down again
this time it won't be my brother
catastrophe calliope in symphony today
my world has gone and rent asunder in a happy way
i have no grievance with you than not
i have no reason to leave this spot
i have no rhyme to what i do
and so then just be off with you
aliens clutched at his sheets and my abductee pal woke screaming
we regretted letting him spend the night
one night led to two led to week led to more
every night like clockwork at 5 he woke us with his cries
and at first we rushed to him and comforted him
but after so much no sleep and no peace
we prayed the aliens would come back for him.
and keep him.
watching the pig stagger across the yard i wonder
how did it feel for you to bear down on its leg so hard to cripple it
to feel to flesh give way under your foot
to hear the pigs anguished squeal and the sullen snap of bone
then why bring it here and tie it to my gate?
some conscience some guilt something
as i heard your truck pull away and barrel down
the rock road slinging stones everywhere in your flight
how did you know to even come here
with your broken sow
did the pig look up and mouth why in betrayal and could you meet its eyes
or did you look away afraid, ashamed at your sudden fury
years before, did i have the same look when he hit me?
the smiling grin faded away
he'd have no more need of niceties tonight
he put his happy face in the freezer
so it would be fresh for the next day
and went to sleep on a bed of nails
hit the dutchman gently
feel his cheek give way beneath your hand
watch him fall and stare
are you satisfied now
you've brought him low
and yet you are lower
can you hear the dull ringing in your ears
the schizophrenic jerk of your elbow
a thudding impact below your jaw
the car has crashed
glass shatter scattering like rain like tears like beads unstrung
it happened so quick
the metal screeching against metal
the bending noise of something tremendous
some huge breaking
something like bone but thicker
rubber band snap the seat belt cuts
the feeling of displacement then...
and among the ruins a clutching hand gave forth
he crawled up from the wreckage of his fallen ego
checking briefly to see if all his parts were attached
so once again someone has said something that crushed him
he is so delicate like a flower
so sincere like a poet
so puerile like rancid butter
lesser people have stood up to more
yet he uses his weakness as a banner
for sympathy and solace poor child of therapy
he needs attention affection affirmation
seminars of souls retrieval tarot readings and past life regressions
he still doesn't like himself
which is fine
i don't like him either
he owes me money

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