"safrit" poems
The CAFO trucks roll past
Smelling of hog **** and ***
Their passengers squeal maga,
We are not afraid, they cry
Our **** is in your water
You breathe our **** all day long
Who’s crying now?
Maga, they cry. Hahaha
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Mar 27, 2019
Mar 27, 2019 at 5:29 PM UTC
Death metal
This Valentines Day
Mass shootings and
Congressmen pray
This Valentines Day
This Valentines Day
Trump says he’ll pray
This Valentines Day
Does he know the words
Can he read them?
This Valentines Day
This Valentines Day
Way-Out Willie
On the stage now
Hand jiving us
This Valentines Day
This Valentines Day
This Valentines Day
Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
May 24, 2018
May 24, 2018 at 4:26 PM UTC
Loan me a dime, he sang
A dime is all he asked
Is that too much
To bother you
Worn hat, gnarled hands
I need a dime
He said, that’s all
Loan me a dime
Back tomorrow
I repay you
If you loan me
a dime, he said
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jan 31, 2019
Jan 31, 2019 at 4:49 PM UTC
There is a house in
Southeast iowa
It sits all empty
Waiting for us there
Big porch, a bigger yard
Golden fields, open skies
A moon so full
I’ve watched and sighed
Star light, the stars bright
They shine for us tonight.
Some day someday soon
We will see them all.
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Feb 15, 2019
Feb 15, 2019 at 9:36 PM UTC
I want to be a magician
How nice it must be,
to have a vanishing act,
to disappear,
at the drop of a hat,
to dazzle and amaze
all of the days,
and sleep at their end
with a smile on your face
I want to be a magician
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jan 29, 2019
Jan 29, 2019 at 10:03 PM UTC
Dinners are quiet, we sometimes speak
In our heads, 2 MMA fighters circling
Looking for a knockout punch
Pass the salt, please
Laughter’s a runaway
Been missing for a year or two
Never filed a report
Needs pepper, doncha think?
We shadow box through the house
Oops excuse me, that was close
Then retire to our corners
Facebook and Instagram, y’know
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Mar 18, 2019
Mar 18, 2019 at 8:44 PM UTC
Raddled, addled
oh my goodness
some dimes in the
jukebox baby
A substantive
No gargantuan
Evening awaits us
Only question
Do we grab it
Race like wildfire
Down our road
Never look back
If the wherewithal
lies within us
God’ll forgive us
Might even smile at us
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jan 31, 2019
Jan 31, 2019 at 10:38 AM UTC
The remote don’t work,
but my baby can dance,
the remote don’t work,
but she can prance, prance, prance
She slides to the left
Shimmies to the right
Makes me smile
That lasts all night
The remote don’t work,
but my baby can dance,
the remote don’t work,
but she can prance, prance, prance
I’m missing sports center
Netflix too
Having watched a ballgame
since 2002
The remote don’t work,
but my baby can dance,
the remote don’t work,
but she can prance, prance, prance
The remote don’t work
And I don’t care
The remote won’t work
And we don’t care
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jan 27, 2019
Jan 27, 2019 at 4:27 PM UTC
Painful misunderstandings
complicated altercations
Confused mashup
of regrets and hope
They cumulate, proliferate
who adjudicates
We all step up
For another ride
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jan 30, 2019
Jan 30, 2019 at 2:02 PM UTC
I wanna live
With the asana girl
We could be happy
Drinking our ghee
With my asana girl
She speaks in their slogans
I nod and say yes
We roll on our mats and
Breathe through our noses
My asana girl
Twelve yogis humming
A sitar for show
The raja relaxes
And waits between chants
For his asana girl
I don’t need no money
I’m happy as hell somehow
Karma’s a ***** y’know
You see it’s all a big show
Om... om... om
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Mar 19, 2019
Mar 19, 2019 at 2:33 PM UTC
A silver smartphone
Hides on a silver bedspread
Wise is he who knows
Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Aug 27, 2018
Aug 27, 2018 at 1:24 PM UTC
You just happened to smile
For you, no big deal
For me, the true sun shone
deep inside me, warm
Another day, maybe two
You did it again
Confirming my theory
Smile equals Life Inside Me
Yeah, Science is Dope
Your smile is crack and I am
Addicted to it
And there’s no rehab for me
Copyright © 2018 - Zane Safrit - All rights reserved
May 25, 2018
May 25, 2018 at 8:55 PM UTC
Hold on, hold on
I keep telling
Myself, I say
Se'f you gotta
Hold on, Love is
Coming, Hold on, Love
Is coming, hold
On, just hold on
Copyright © 2018 - Zane Safrit - All rights reserved.
May 20, 2018
May 20, 2018 at 10:40 PM UTC
I saw Him on the street
He walked right on by
I waved and I danced
I even said “hi.”
I went to His House
I knocked on His door
Jesus Himself
Said "There’s room for no more."
God, He don’t know me
And if He does
He acts mighty strange
I call him at night
Sometimes daytime too
He asks for my name
Says, who, who are you.
God, he don’t know me
And if he does
He acts mighty strange
God, he don’t know me
Jesus, please help me
Y’Dad’s forgotten my name
He laughed and He laughed
And He said "Ain’t that a shame"
Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jul 16, 2018
Jul 16, 2018 at 7:55 AM UTC
I’m not making it
I think I’m going to die
I’m not getting out
It’ll happen one day shy
One day shy of the
Job of my dreams that coulda
Matched finding the love
Of my life again, return
Yeah, I’m not gonna
Make it, shake it or wake it
This life already
****** me dry, bit by slow bit
I’m laughing somewhere
In here, behind another
Sour riposte
Letter they send me each day
No one wants you, and
Neither do we but hey we
Wish you luck today
And in your career journey
Tomorrow, today
You are not gonna make it
So just go away
Call it a day, go away.
Ain’t it a **** shame
Sure is but for who, me you
Never was gonna
Make it. Joke's on me'n you.
Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 9:26 PM UTC
Heard all the news
Read all the sites
Talking heads views
Little sound bites
I just don't care
I really don't
Cause I got you
Cause I got you.
Trump's up in Flames
Our world is too
No one to blame
It's all boo-hoo
I just don't care
I really don't
Cause I got you
Cause I got you.
Children got fear
Adults got guns
The NRA cheers
We're all undone
I just don't care
I really don't
Cause I got you
Cause I got you.
Black man at home
Waving brand new phone
Cops shoot him dead
20 shots center mass
I just don't care
I really don't
Cause I got you
Cause I got you.
© Zane Safrit, 2018 All rights reserved.
Mar 24, 2018
Mar 24, 2018 at 4:37 PM UTC
"You’re never too old
To dream," Mr Tony said
And a tear ran down his cheek
Truth is known in many ways
None truer than a shed tear
For all to see.
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jul 27, 2019
Jul 27, 2019 at 3:22 PM UTC
To dance, to smile
Perchance to dream
a little dream
of you, of me
the recipe stays
a mystery
for why and when
these dreams appear
staying, lingering
firming up
like a meringue
to satisfy
Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jul 15, 2018
Jul 15, 2018 at 10:23 AM UTC
Things are all changing
I don’t know and I don’t really care
Things are all changing
There’s not enough air
Water is sewage and truth is a joke
We had us a life
We were going somewhere
Then one morning or maybe one year
We reached all the way to Happy
Decided to turn back.
The laughs and the giggles,
The hugs and the cuddles
No, we’d rather have tears
Hit the gas pedal and slid off the track
We started to spin, our car rolled on its back.
I opened my eyes and it’s all up in smoke
It’s all up in smoke and I cannot breathe.
Tell me why, tell me how,
Tell me where and tell me when
Please won’t you tell me and forgive me my sin.
Copyright © 2018 - Zane Safrit - All rights reserved.
May 5, 2018
May 5, 2018 at 3:24 PM UTC
I’m drowning
Hand waving
Chin is up
Passerbys smile
All around
Smiles and laughs
Busy-ness
So very
I’m drowning
It’s okay
This today
Ends this way
Carry on,
This line in
Air is gone
Anyone?
Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Aug 4, 2018
Aug 4, 2018 at 8:24 PM UTC
Love lurks in the shadows, a B&E pro,
watching for an open window, an unlatched screen door,
on the not yet hardened heart.
If we’re not careful
It sneaks in through a sly glance
A smile, a nod, a giggle, a laugh
Sometimes it hides like trojan horse in the inane argument
the one that won’t stop, we won’t stop.
it keeps churning back and forth, the everready bunny,
Until we can’t breathe, have nothing left to say
except for what we want to say.
It’s a comedian, hiding in punchlines like
a mowed yard and the trash cans waiting at the curb,
Tax filings and balanced household budgets,
a clean sink
and a car tuned up, gassed up and
ready for the morning dash.
Love announces itself in a shout
a why the hell’d you do that, shout
Love’s a twisted trickster,
hiding in puke
Cold towels on a sweaty forehead
Then the knitted cap
Keeping that cold head warm
Love gets all shy when things get noisy,
The kid who won’t make eye contact
So sit tight, sit quiet and listen
It’s hard
Try it sometime
See what you think
Let me know.
Love’s never found in an open cellphone
Swiping, swiping, no.
Maybe a text, maybe,
But not for long.
Love’s demanding, impatient
Pleeeze don’t give me that
Let ‘em go and if they return
Blah-blah ********
Absence makes the heart shrivel
Love dies in loneliness
Loneliness is to love
Like water is to The Evil Queen in Wizard of Oz
A few drops and it starts to die.
When you find love,
Feed it, feed it, feed it
Let it rest and breathe
Keep it safe,
And never let it go,
Never make it want to hide.
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Apr 27, 2019
Apr 27, 2019 at 2:53 PM UTC
"My darlin’, I
Can’t get enough of your love
Babe
I know I know I know."
"Can’t get enough of your love
"Babe."
I sang Barry White to you
But now it seems
we’re really through
We danced together
Ups and downs
Hand in hand but now you’re gone
Still I sing this same ol’ song
"My darlin’ I
"Can’t get enough of your love
"Babe."
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Apr 14, 2019
Apr 14, 2019 at 2:40 PM UTC
Charisma, Sharisma
I sleuthed you out
on our first day
in our first class
Doldrums, humdrums
We bored you everyday
Summertime, Classtime
We all bought your charm
Until you made it
Baked on the beach
Fried up, tied up
S’how you liked it
Your biopic's
A myopic
Red light, green light
play’n all alone
I shoulda known
I coulda known
Player one’s down
Nowhere to be found
Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jan 29, 2019
Jan 29, 2019 at 10:10 PM UTC
Crystal **** and Mountain Dew
You got me and I got you
Whoa boy
Whoa girl
Sitting around
Nothing to do
Who needs glue
When I got you
Whoa boy
Whoa girl
You wear jammies
I wear jeans
When we go shopping
at our Hy-Vee
Whoa boy
Whoa girl
We had our jobs
Health insurance, too
Now they’re gone
What do you do?
Whoa
Whoa
3 bars closed,
We’re down to one
But that’s okay
Cause I got you
Whoa boy
Whoa girl
Winter’s coming
It’s getting dark
Propane’s empty
The car won’t start
Whoa boy
Whoa girl
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jul 31, 2019
Jul 31, 2019 at 10:30 PM UTC
Like soldiers in a ghost army
Broken hearts rise
From the ashes of their jobs
Seeking each other, hoping
For another Sat’dy night
And it’s alright,
For another chance, another
dance, a smile, a kiss
And find their partner
for the night, for tomorrow.
And never again lie alone
Hoping, huddling, praying.
Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jul 15, 2018
Jul 15, 2018 at 7:49 AM UTC