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Apr 4 · 27
Bette Davis Mann
I have reached an age
without another page
pay an obscene wage
shouting more rage
on my silent stage
death's final gauge.
Apr 3 · 48
Chaos
Did I find you in debris?
Chaotic love set us free.
We bought a leaky boat
our love keeps us afloat.
Apr 3 · 31
We Always Eat Hearts
I'm just a cross eyed
lover in your heart
I got a ticket. I lied
can't stop the start.
I want it to come true.
All I need is my you
my existential lies
Lord of the Flies.
Apr 3 · 72
Desire
We species
go on forever
because desire
****** fire
perfumed
consumed
Why?
Chemistry
Biology
Comedy.
Apr 2 · 32
Louvre
All my fuses tripped
  as we tore us apart
  in ****** devastation
  became a work of art.
Apr 2 · 43
Virginity's Death
Biology and chemistry
pheromones and lust
overwhelmed religion
virginity death ******.
We were where we shouldn't have been
   getting things we shouldn't have got.
   Delicious! The taste of forbidden fruit
   ripe, sweet, dripping and ready to rot.
Apr 1 · 44
French Leave
Party keeps raging on fire
I leave out the front door
like a ghost without desire
float into a bed of a *****
donate my seed to the choir
I hear my Symphony's score.
Mar 31 · 37
The Ghosts
The dead hover in darkness
shadows and the evil shade.
Watching us as we undress
naked showers. They fade
in fog and heavy rains
hide inside poet's word
inside our busy brains
Whispers almost heard.
Mar 30 · 94
Christ
I've been on your cross
nailed impaled beaten
I never felt your loss
you in my mouth eaten.
Mar 30 · 68
Broke Promise
Protect my beating heart
from being torn apart
by love's broke promise
sealed with that last kiss.
Your taste always lingers
in my hair and fingers.
Mar 29 · 49
Forever Best Friend
Round here we bark like lions
fix ourselves when we're broken.
I need a kind touch and calm voice
and laughter and throw ***** and
a treat and let me stick my head
out the car window on our way
to the dog park. I will be your
forever best friend forever!
So many dogs and cats on death row.
So many beautiful eyes beseeching.
Mar 29 · 36
Looking for Ghosts
It's hard to find old ghosts in Eden Park
they blend into the lovely midnight dark
young me cheated on my wife in twilight
she fed the kids dinner as we took flight.
I'm 75 years old visiting long lost youth
always searching in the fog of the truth.
Mar 28 · 40
The Mortal Sin
We broke your *****
the big time Mortal sin.
Bonnie and Clyde again
pistol whip a devil grin
Maria and Tony within
Romeo and Juliet end.
Mar 28 · 43
Neverland
I stand tall on Everest
scuba in Mariana Trench.
This circus is too flawed.
God threw in His wrench.
Carve initials on wrists
forever love is forever
my promises have twists
end in a place of Never.
Mar 27 · 97
Chasing Tennis Balls
You lovely creature hairy and
too eager to jump on me barely
in the front door. I've never been
loved this much my whole life.
Do you mind if I lie with you
as you die in the soft grass and
sunlight and remember chasing
tennis ***** in your dreams?
Rustatious
Mar 27 · 100
Instant Karma
Notable characters I've known
touched raw nerves I exposed
vulnerable like being alone
forever in a Polaroid posed.
Mar 27 · 16
Blind Spots
There's always blind spots
without any fore thoughts.
Never mind consequences,
never any mending fences.
What good are they now? Today's pale in those lights.
Beer and wine dancing naked in the dark forgetting
my Judas betrayal until I wake in guilt's shadow.
Messiah in a crypt for 3 days and nights and I arise
dancing naked with youth's drunk abandon and flowers
in her hair she smelling of her perfect cheap perfume
and I keep drowning in her perfect beauty in old dreams.
Could've, should've, would've, kiss the old days goodbye.
Mar 26 · 29
Dying Out of Context
It was an antiseptic space. The doctor said
   something I couldn't quite hear because the
   clock over her right shoulder had a second
   hand that sounded like firecrackers each tick!

   I heard stage 4, in your blood, invading your
   entire body, maybe 3 months. The noise grew
   louder. Each tock became a bomb in a war zone.
   Deafening. PTSD. I was freezing and shaking.

   My girl just turned 2. Collateral damage.
   It wasn't my turn! What kind of god does this?
   I thanked my doctor for my death sentence
   and went home to live with my fading family.
Mar 26 · 18
Life's Symphony
Final note of
life's symphony
resonates with
our sympathy
priest consoles
bells will ring
tears will dry
angels will sing.
Mar 25 · 171
Love Just Out of Reach
I'm just a junkyard dog.
Old scars tell my story.
I'm left water and scraps.
Alone in the dark I sleep
and dream of a better life
and love with *******
I smell beyond fences.
Love just out of reach.
Mar 24 · 57
Anonymous Soldier
I speak to you from some dirt in a field.
I couldn't say where. We were soldiers in
deadly combat. We all left intact lives to
throw death's dice for some forgotten glory.
We died in piles and found our way to burial
as the months turned to years. Dead brothers
in arms in historic battlefields with plaques.
I miss your last kiss when you said come home.
Mar 24 · 146
All Bets Forgiven
I'll dance with forbidden
and kiss girls forgiven
drink the devil's brew
as if we never knew
we'd turn a final scene
and both end up clean.
Mar 24 · 61
75 Candles
I'm 75 years old. I'm 17 again.
Old memories playing on a screen
in silent black and white, piano
music, time sees where I've been.
Happy Birthday. Blow years away
the candles set the years on fire
burn the bridges and words we say
regret the lost fierce brief desire.
Mar 24 · 34
Kids' Lives
I stood aside
let you ride
life's terrors
fix the errors.
Mar 23 · 43
Black Dog Ghost
I swallowed cruel
of what I'd done.
My soul was dark
erased the sun.
I abandoned him
I feared anger
echoes Dad's war
rear view chasing
ran into traffic
broke leg legacy.
God rescued you
adopted by family.
Mar 23 · 25
Outer Space
We got crazy in outer space
promised love face to face
we swore that it was honest
nothing as good as promised
bumped ugly after it all
left a fake number just call.
Mar 23 · 39
Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities  

We play into your emotion
to some son of god martyr
with memorized devotion.
50% ROI buy into a charter.
Fill pews Cloward Piven
love third world forgiven.
Erase borders invite
every known parasite.
Mar 22 · 38
Ides of March
Ides of March
     March 15, 2024

Turning point in our decline
Soros' Obama's Biden's crime
on full display all in place.
Never shame, never disgrace.
Proud comrades fill the gulags
that is after all just prologues.
Mar 20 · 35
1948 Lottery
Men were home from war and
back to work busy making kids
with the boss of the house and I
won a lottery and came to life in
a sweaty moment of busy parents,
two girls trying for a first son.
Mar 18 · 25
Kill Shelter
I saved a broken dog
took him to my broken home
to live with my broken family.
I tried to fix him with broken
training. I was too broke to get
it right. The more I yelled the more
broke he got. I had a drunken insight
one night walking him in a full moon
reminded me of me in my childhood.
I saw things through our broken eyes
held him close. I promised I'd fix us.
I saved ourselves  from a **** shelter.
His name is Jack Daniels and he is spoiled rotten and loved all the way to the moon and safely back again. I like me again too.
Mar 15 · 31
poets eclipse
Drag the full moon
from her slumber
for a midnight noon
we always remember.
Mar 15 · 67
Estranged Kate
You are finally facing
my demons left behind.
I am now facing yours
to whom I've been blind.
Mar 15 · 65
Irish Leave
I slip out your backdoor
like a drunk love ghost.
Irish leave hurts more
but I always need it most.
I hate forever goodbyes
filled with forever lies.
Mar 14 · 49
Dear Daddy
You broke me in pieces
when you abandoned me
sent to an orphanage
you set yourself free
hopping freight trains
postcards of small love
from places in a granite
heart push comes to shove.
You keep guilt ***** quiet
sleeping in bar lover's beds
dreaming of your life's despair
wake hands shake take meds.
Mar 14 · 35
My Neon Saint
Your golden hair is a halo.
     Heat lightening makes it so.
     Our gravity was lost, we go
     in other orbits. I hear things,
     needle marks, attached strings
     bones turn tricks, cheap flings.
     Still my neon saint at midnight,
     need you from bar stool flight.
     You pass by in our neon light.
Mar 13 · 56
Lolita's Sin
******'s sin is mine alone.
  She never knew her power.
  Bubble gum puffy nips
  I desired her perfect flower.

  Her mother died to save her
  but she saved me instead.
  She came to our bed in tears,
  that night she finally bled.

  ****** floats wild on the wind
  her cheap perfume my seduction.
  She died birthing our Mortal sin
  causing my Eden's destruction.
Mar 12 · 50
I Died in My Sleep
I died last night with
my dead family all
laugh eggnog drunk
I pass through a wall
Mar 12 · 142
My Life a Puzzle
I remember tiny creases
my cavalcade of strife
scattered puzzle pieces
fragments teasing life.
Broken memory.
Mar 12 · 49
Funeral
We all move stiffly around the body
  and whisper gentle sorry for your loss
  while looking for an exit from death to
  join the living with sign of the cross.
Mar 11 · 65
Estranged Daughter
I'm done with wedding rings,
babies and any other things
that make me walk the plank,
dead still living in a blank,
still pay interest to the bank.
I die with no one to thank.
Katie
Mar 10 · 47
Mother
I was your tiny prisoner
until I burst on the scene
let me out or I'll escape
by the scalpel into being.
Mar 10 · 39
Land of Brave
Pull me out of deep water
avoid the lung's slaughter
I love you all it is true
help me as I turn blue
save me from the grave.
I will die land of brave.
Mar 9 · 47
I Loved You
Falling in love is wonderful.
Staying in love is impossible.
Mar 9 · 32
Food Chain Roulette
Spin the wheel and make a bet
where do you land on roulette?
On top you eat Filet Mignon
bottom maggots feast at dawn.
Mar 8 · 26
New Years Eve 1945
Raised glasses troops back home,
  five dames toasting a new need.
  Maybe tomorrow's no more alone.
  Wombs hoping for a lover's seed.
Mar 7 · 107
Starry Night
In a Van Gogh painting
   cheap wine and waiting
   inside our favorite cafe
   out of focus strange day
   swirling forever wars
   madness midnight stars
   satisfy my lust's desire
   quenching passion's fire.
   Morphine in the vein
   quiets my lover's  pain.
Mar 6 · 31
Boy.
Our first boy, boy.
My namesake, boy.
Fetch my tools, boy.
Cry beating belt, boy.
Make me proud, boy.
Ignore my cruelty, boy.
War's killing eats us, boy.
Comes home each night, boy.
Never mind the misery, boy.
She smiled at you, Boy!
Mar 6 · 35
No Prayers Answered
I saw a dying brother bleed out.
   I saw a madman **** his flock.
   Parades celebrated the funerals.
   Little boys masquerading as men
   played war. Real men died for mud.
   Loved ones prayed their rosaries.
   No prayers were ever answered on
   our street. Gold stars filled sad
   windows. Widows cried in private.
   They would never dance again.
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