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Feb 4 · 53
Broken Skin
Just leaking sin
my broken skin
a hundred *****
a couple of stunts.
Saturday confession
I never learn a lesson.
I'll try again Saturday
in hayloft get my way.
Linda Hotze  please,
give me your cheese.
Feb 4 · 88
Hospice Crawl
You'd never believe what I saw.
Staring into the gaping maw
I saw Rusty's puppy paw
took him in my heart raw.
He died on the 4th of July
bombs exploding in the sky
I held him tight and knew,
it broke our hearts in two.
Feb 3 · 45
O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill


  Haunted stern looking playwright.
  Should've married Zelda Fitzgerald.
  Ghosts on the sands of Province town
  looking beautiful in black and white.

  Snapshots define them for generations.
  Always slim and bashful for cameras.
  I have always been the iceman in cold
  shadows of my earthly greedy nations.
Feb 2 · 96
Love in Time of Covid
At 6 feet apart
mask no kisses
love has no heart
only near misses.
Feb 1 · 62
These Old Claws
My old hands are crooked flaws
tear our flesh accidental claws
we make hungry clumsy love
when a push becomes a shove.
Jan 31 · 63
100 Birthday Wish
I wish I knew you then.
I wish we'd start again.
I wish we've grown thin.
I wish I remembered then.
Jan 31 · 274
Juxtaposition
I'm sun you're rain,
    Pleasure to the pain.
    Cracked heart sustain.
    Join in Love's refrain.
Jan 30 · 63
Mad Clown Love
A million laughs
and bubble baths,
loud 1812 Overture
drugs open aperture.
Both mutes *******
broncos are bucking.
Watch silent movies
Garbo on her knees.
Jan 27 · 110
Huntsville, AL
2 lost souls met at Rugby's and
  crawled into each others heart.
  We loved 3 days and rose again
  into Southern light's fresh start.
Jan 26 · 139
LA Crematory
Santa Ana winds
angry fire maker
arsonist unbends
pizza oven baker.
Jan 23 · 82
Splinters
Everything came apart
shattered my heart
splinters always bring
paper cut pain unseen.
Jan 22 · 107
Drunk Enough
I can't regret
what I forget.
Jan 21 · 79
Adam and Eve
The petting
the kissing
the getting
just missing

That night we came together
into the sacred secret Eden
my Adam your Eve forever
forbidden fruit not eaten.
Jan 20 · 60
Viagra
The blue pill promises hard times
marriages revived in bed crimes.
Beware your old weak hearts
at love's sudden restarts.
Jan 19 · 53
Wizards of DC
We finally dare
to question you
pretend to care?
Nothing is true.

Heart, courage,brain
Snake oil bromide
rob us blind again,
jab into genocide.
Jan 18 · 54
beauty and beast
I'm lost into pieces
we share starry night
hearts ignite flames
look for love or flight.
Absinthe madness
troubled tongue
ending in sadness
no longer young.
Beauty cracks
old wax mask
wrinkled witch
taken to task.
Jan 17 · 460
Froze in Rhyme
I want to
and have
apply you
magic salve.
Stop the clocks.
Turn off time
no more tocks
froze in rhyme.
Famous painting
hangs in France
with crooked smile
and one more dance.
Jan 17 · 72
Black Hole Sun
The sun that keeps us alive
steals our souls to survive.
Jan 13 · 87
Broken Heart
Lover's fingers on ivory keys
play moving music all about
broken vows on bent knees.
Sowing Love's forever doubt.
Jan 13 · 78
Shadow Puppet
I have no fear or hate,
just a shadow of a fate.
Never too early or late,
nothing I can anticipate.
Jan 11 · 94
D.C. Addicted Whores
D.C. Addicted ******

Civilization crumbles with laws
made of DC lies from the jaws
of mindless government ******
barter dignity at Dollar Stores
buy the fish on Motel 6 floors
commies finally won the wars.
Jan 6 · 74
Clock
The minute hand crawls to 10
wonders what might have been
permission given to finally sleep
pray to god my soul to keep.
Jan 6 · 91
I Wet My Bed
It hasn't happened for years.
I tell my wife it's dream tears.
Bought Adult Depends at last
try holding the currents fast.
Sadly there is no more dignity
when you lose control of ***.
Jan 6 · 187
6 Alcott Lane
I'm a worn out old man.
I want to go back to Alcott
where our world was in a jar
we were collected bugs in the
woods. We knew the creeks and
lake and swung on vines Tarzan
like and ran home to supper and
homework and TV and slumber.
Dad off to work at 5am hacking
in the bushes and off he went in
a flesh colored rocket ship bare
as birth his '57 Chevrolet Bel Air.
Jan 5 · 74
Dr. Seuss
How to move from here to there?
With our entire life in tiny boxes.
Million rocks to move somewhere
Sisyphus calls the Uhaul  bosses.
Jan 5 · 45
Old Shiver Bones
I woke up cold
in summer heat
just feeling old
weak heartbeat.

Our *** kills me
smile on my face
love sets me free
in rebirth grace.
Jan 3 · 64
Hedonist's Vows
I was ****** and drunk at 3am.
My conscience called my phone.
We loved and never answered.
I crawled back to bed now alone
a little room at hell's midnight.
I woke in your fierce sunlight.
Dec 2024 · 66
Set the Table
I always set the table
even as we starve
potatoes' blight
extinguish light
black in coffins
ordered flight.
Dec 2024 · 62
Magician
Dawn's first faint light
    beer fueled fury abates.  
    I'm spent, no more fight.
    Sweep up broken plates.

    The neglect always shows through
    yellow teeth in a drunken grin.
    The kid's dressed in hand me downs
    yellow bus without lunch again.

    I have magic elixir I can give
    that makes life worth living.
    Beer and music help me live
    another day still forgiving.
Dec 2024 · 61
Finally
Life isn't precious. It's comical.
It's a wonder the human race is
still here. We're addicted to any
thing that makes us high enough
to escape the dreary life we live.
We **** everything. We put ****
in our veins for a minute of peace.
We die to escape loneliness finally.
Dec 2024 · 92
BYOB
I'll come for you
I bring a bottle
and ****** or two
loosen the throttle
set fire to the bed
sleep in splendid ash
wake you give me head
I always pay with cash.
Bring Your Own *****
Dec 2024 · 56
Dance Card
Pairing aces and jacks
on dance card bingo
whistle past grave yards
fingers crossed lingo.
Even or odd on cards?
Is the stick yes or no?
Pregnant or ******?
Dec 2024 · 31
Cowboy
I'm a cowboy without a full moon.
  My world completely all fenced in.
  I'll be a wild west show pretty soon.
  Pretend sheriff wears a star of tin.

  Towns are cities concrete canyons
  Midnight cowboys rent their guns
  by the hour to rich companions
  wake drunk by noon in neon suns.
Dec 2024 · 69
Wounded Knee
Bury my heart
at Wounded Knee
I played my part
now set me free.
Dec 2024 · 32
Wild West Show
I'm a cowboy who's run out of time.
  My world completely all fenced in.
  I'll be a wild west show pretty soon.
  Pretend sheriff wearing  a star of tin.
Elder aunt adored
lazy Summer bored
reading Hardy Boys
stroke mystery toys.
Sleep in tent on her lawn
chickens wake at dawn.
Spoils us with ice cream
old man's boyhood dream.
Dec 2024 · 77
Later
We'll bury our hearts
in their aching parts
later when blood dries
we understand whys.
We love certain things
hate no wedding rings.
Dec 2024 · 80
Mirror
I stare in a mirror of ice
see myself in paradise
fever warm that night
walking into the light.
Dec 2024 · 76
Jayne
We met at Rugby's bar
shivering seeking heat
drink wish upon a star
mirror our heartbeat.
Born a crooked womb
drunk in a tiny room
push a baby carriage
now a sterile marriage
daily we both pretend
a marriage just smoke
laughs are our friend
old hearts just broke.
Dec 2024 · 75
Cesspool
A filthy, disgusting,
morally corrupt place
where government
sows its disgrace

their power to abuse
jail with impunity
our taxes they steal
congress immunity.

**** all the atheists
our Christ to crucify  
hope is our pacifists
rain is tears they cry.
Dec 2024 · 137
Tomorrow
I will forgive you
I hope you will
remember the dew
naked on the hill
Dec 2024 · 67
What is My Who
I have my fathers war anger
my gramps drunkard laughter
an angry funny drunk stranger
cruelty demands unkind disaster.
Dec 2024 · 62
Love Dies
I came upon a deer that was caught up dying
  on a fence in pain and fear. Places I've known.
  I tried saving it but I couldn't lift the burden.
  I screamed for help but wasn't heard. It bled out.
  The throes of death were horrible. I wish I died
  instead of innocence that died in a silent shout.
Dec 2024 · 75
Xanax
Turn my mind off.
Gift me my sleep.
Dec 2024 · 68
Nirvana
I'm moving to Nirvana
a place beyond the sun
millions of promises
never a broken one.
Dec 2024 · 231
Life's Debris
75 and moving to last page
time to clear an empty nest
just accept the final stage
then  throw away the rest.

Dumpster in the driveway
collects my broken dreams
books bought never read
nothing as it ever seems.

Guitars and keyboards tossed
lyrics forgotten as stutters
all my words are dead lost
poems die in wet gutters.
Dec 2024 · 125
Kiss Me When I Die
I will feel your lips
send me on my way
beyond life's blips
and the day to day.
Dec 2024 · 121
Follow Directions
The devil checks hell's manifest
every day looking for my name.
The mortal sins never confessed,
unrepentant sins of my shame.

God keeps me unto Himself.
He knows my romantic heart,
My ideals are always top shelf.
Put the horse before the cart.
Dec 2024 · 54
Small Treats
Innocent kids defiled
by adored self styled
monsters of the young
always forked tongue.
I'm searching for hope, help.
Dec 2024 · 51
Fallen Catholic
I drink Your Chardonnay blood
I eat Your Triscut ******* flesh
flush my sins in my holy flood
Still say small prayers. God bless.
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