Friday, May 29, 2015

Rising to the Occasion (2)


No matter how quickly 
They were set down, 
Poems ought always to be

Read slowly— 
Too many 
People have wasted 

Too much 
Of their breath 
Already. 





Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Lemons Are a Dime a Dozen


Lacking a flashy brand- 
New first line to start 
Their vehicles, most 
Poets traffic in selling you 

On the merits of waiting 
For a killer last, killing 
Time in the meanwhile 
By knocking off lots, 

Lots of lackluster gimcrack,
Secondhand cars. 


Friday, May 22, 2015

Alienating the Self


Admit it— 
hard not to 

believe, harder still 
to acknowledge 

a complete stranger. 


Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Waking the Dead


You don’t have to 
Sleep on it—not 

As hard as it sounds— 
Silence is the only sound 

They understand. 





Saturday, May 16, 2015

Inner City Clearance Sales


trigger happy neighborhoods
where cops pick up/off kids at will— 

smashed store fronts strip 
mauled bodies busted

corporate person- 
hoods clean up again. 


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