Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Yusef's blood
To create anything
you need
a deep abiding love
of the sound of man
making poetry
from air
Comprehend the drive,
the need to shape the natural world
to our design
sculpt breath and will and
sex into acoustic control
god’s gift and man’s mind
melding together into momentary reality
fixed in that instant of creativity
forever
and fleetingly
in the left brain of those present
Musicians spitting gold
coins from under their tongues like
greek kings in the maestro box
No wonder Apollo was
the Archer
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
white night
Corner store scumbag
Flashes cigarette smile
And pin up prosti’s
Twenty-buck suck
Fifty-buck fuck
STD on the house
Flash him forty
Call it even
No tip for Jane
Back room jitters +
Belt line bulge
= Trigger finger twitch
Take your pick
And dip your prick
Line crossed asshole
Steel flashes, room redecorated
In femoral firestorm
And brain matter grey
Good deed done
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
well publicized secret to success
Most writers
eventually
write about cats
They are noble beasts
and if you want
to be a writer
you should adopt one
at some point
Thursday, April 8, 2010
timmy and the story of AA
I saw Timmy a few months ago
he was doing better
staying clean,
staying sober.
He said meetings
were really helping
hold back the need
to rush out and drink the town.
But his roommate told me
he relapsed once
a couple weekends ago,
spent two days as a puddle.
He seems fine now
roommate assures me,
but I know Timmy
and I know about the bottle
he keeps under the couch.
