Integrity: A Summing Up

How, after all the hollow, 

Speechless years spent

In the company 

Of the unprincipled 

Many, one word is now 

Enough to break 

Your vow of silence in- 

To inviolate pieces-- 

Keep on repeating it 

Till it rings true.

 

 

No New Tricks In The Theater Of The Absurd

Those of us who are still 

Alive, know how hard it is 

To play dead.

 

Stunning New World Naked Aphrodite

Sailors by a sea 

Beleaguered do not want 

To see wondrous dappled waves 

Lapping your feet--they hunger to see you 

Bursting full-blown from an oyster 

Shell before a herd of grunting 

Swine mooning over a brimming 

Trough of mind-blowing slop; 

So step right up and humor us

Knockout, please don't stop.

 

 

On A Fence (For The Time Being)

Where you were before

You decided to

Stay there(in)--

Definitely.

 

Wake-up Call For The Duration

Zounds!

Super poet profoundly 

Durable always more 

Than capable of leap- 

Frogging from one fantastic 

Telling line to another 

In an unbroken series 

Of singular bounds 

With hardly any wear or tear 

Worth mentioning till 

An astounding lack 

Of down-to-earth metaphors 

Finally set him and his oh so 

Flimsy craft soundly crashing 

Down to ground-zero!