Hell hath no fury like a scorned woman
   scorned
What one man sees as “enchantment”
In a woman’s eyes that soon sours into
   “harassment”
Worse if the dude is a Dude, you’ll soon
   be sued
That’s a double-whammy from women
   unglued
When a wishful dream becomes a joke
   & turns into a hoax
You’ll pay the price Palomino
And if a Gay dude shuns a damsel in her
   “distress”
That Gay gent gets the triple-whammy
‘Cause girls grow-up in the misplaced
   baloney
That all men want & need female harmony
Simply because they’re always *****
That becomes a hard dill for some women
   to swallow
When reality sets in & the promise
   of marriage dims to hollow
So Palomino you better look but not
   touch
Or you’ll soon be in dutch
You’ll discover the price was too high
   to pay
And finding yourself wishing you were
   Gay
— Ray Laccetti

The more we move forward the more
we go & become backward

Near is the time for me & perhaps for
us all, to get ready to exodus  

From a very insipid & hypocritical world
that we knowingly have spoiled & mired

Soon I’ll lay my body down, for me to
kiss the ground. No more unforgiving-
people-stuff to cosset & propound

Nothing left to justify, to glorify,
to try & figure-out, & to reason why

Perhaps I’ll be remembered for some of
the better-stuff that was me. Maybe not;
little merit nor ever profound

The joy was in the doing, the creating, not
for any applause it might’ve generated

That’s the way it should’ve been & not
the other way around

For the world has grown too old to dream
& other hallucinations have taken-ground

I don’t think I want to be around when
the planet takes it’s final bow & becomes
an even biger-bang slaughter-house grind



— Ray Laccetti

ROCK-BOTTOM
• Republicans are for
the inert-status-quo.
While Democrats should
be more ‘go-man-go.’
• Reps. growl: “if it ain’t
broke, why try & fix it?”
Dems. bark-back: “it IS
broke, we must try & fix it!”
• Progress is a stop & go
process, a see-saw action.
Proceed & advance to
achieve it, without all the
fanfare, distractions &
nonsense.
• Or stay stuck-in-the -
middle, no pain & no gain,
that should be verboten.
• Or we’ll hit rock-bottom,
drowned in the ocean, then
be over, all but forgotten!
— Ray Laccetti

CANDIDATES DO A LOT OF TALKIN’

ALSO DID ****-SO, WHEN HE WAS
‘A-STALKIN’

NOW HE’S AN ALSO-RAN, NO-BARGIN,
NON-ENTITY

THIS TIME AROUND, ASK YOURSELF:

‘CAN THESE TALKERS REALLY DO
THE JOB OR JUST CREATE MORE OF A
MESS WHILE THEY’RE IN THE OFFICE.

‘CAUSE I CONFESS, I DON’t KNOW
HOW MUCH MORE OF THIS CRAP
‘WE THE PEOPLE’ CAN INGEST?

OR BE A PATHETIC-SHOVEL TO DIG-
OUT OF ANOTHER’S PERSON’s
FECULENCE!
— Ray Laccetti

NO YOKE
Had a job where I often began
early, only to quit late, just to
keep a potato on my plate.
Not the only chap to go thru that.
It helped somewhat to complain
of it to those who’d listen. As I
look-back over that “workin’-my-
***-off-crap,” I recall truth might
be stretched thin, but never will
break & often rises above lies, &
like oil, it floats on wine. Hard-
work never hurt & only folks will
complain, of commonplace yokes.
—  Ray Laccetti

LIVE-WIRE
Many days I’m self-critical,
      of myself, who else
And there’s no-accounting
      for my tastes, either
I’m a creative-yoyo, sitting
      on-my-shelf
Who retreats into a shell,
     wherein I dwell, by myself
& for the peccadilloes of irate,
       but tolerant, creatures
I never wanted to be a so-
      called ‘everyday’ person
Like those who climb church-
steeples to meet other
      funamboulistic people
— Ray Laccetti

TAKE TWO GUESSES

lie detection for idiots
fist-fights-for-fatties
hosted by *****-old-hosts
whose only concern is the
money they’re pocketing

it only goes to explain
the bottomless-pit-depth
society has sunken into

the only worth these shows
hold for me are the hunky
but amazingly-stupid dudes
who appear there-in, along
with their god-ugly-fat &
equally dumb women-folk,
forever crying ‘he’s cheatin’

to wit, I say to myself:
at least these dude have
some merit

so shoot me if in disagree-
ment but that’s the way I see
it… those dudes should hook-
up with each other & the
women with jenny craig  — Laccetti