Steve Matthews

Steve Matthews Feb 2024

After the deep, deep thinking
I think about lunch!

Steve Matthews Feb 2024

That the journalist writing
the story about him doesn't know
is that there's no such thing
as meaningless action.

Which is why he's throwing a fit.

Steve Matthews Feb 2024

My Plans

Are a house on stilts
in shifting sand
in the path of a tsunami

Steve Matthews Feb 2024

MAGA

On some level even the most die-hard cultists
must realize that their orange-skinned Messiah
wants to burn down The Republic.

They're so angry they don't care.

Steve Matthews Feb 2024

Phantom Pain

A fighter jet turns on the afterburners
but no false absence confuses me

The antidepressants I take
dull what I recall of pain

Though a ghost of it remains
though I see mostly clouds

Steve Matthews Jan 2024

Social Media

Checking out YouTube,
never seen so many people
being crushed, destroyed,
annihilated, wrecked, obliterated,
owned, eviscerated and so on.

Whew!

Steve Matthews Jan 2024

Strippers

You give them money
and, for a minute or two,
they pretend to like you.

Most, if not all of them, despise you.
Who can blame them?