There once was a cop from St. Loo Who told a tall tale full of poo The public all booed But he was so shrewd That his…… Read more “Ferguson: A Therapeutic Limerick”
Category: Poetry
Remnants
With tattered remnants left over by those more skilled and with better patterns to guide them, I tailor a self a calico, constructed of sackcloth and ash …… Read more “Remnants”
Life Is Short
Life is short, and so am IMy parents are tallSo I don’t know why Could there be somethingI haven’t been told? Some sort of secretAs yet to unfold?…… Read more “Life Is Short”
Or Forever Hold Our Peace
I slippedon a peal of your sweet laughterand fell into happily ever after the landthat we know doesn’t really existin timethrough our mutual love-clouded mist We’d seeThrough disbelieving tears of…… Read more “Or Forever Hold Our Peace”
Exposure
A soul died of exposure in a child’s body posed for obscenity hidden from public view by polaroid camera shutters blocking the light of truth Perpetually posed…… Read more “Exposure”
Love in a Hopeless Time and Place
Reach for me from sleep in the midst of a rosy birdsong dawn to murmur soft sweet reasons to live in my ears Memorize me, now, before…… Read more “Love in a Hopeless Time and Place”
An Independence Day Poem
I won’t pay your taxes I won’t drink your tea I won’t fight your wars And I won’t sail your sea Because the sea isn’t yours…… Read more “An Independence Day Poem”
Dimming
This life extinguished is one less lightshed upon the darkness within usthrough which we stumble blindlyinto the abyss of ignorancewhere together we perish aloneOur descent lit only…… Read more “Dimming”
Limericks
Craigslist There once was a woman from VailWho had a small item for saleSo she wrote an adTo describe what she hadAnd ended up going to jail…… Read more “Limericks”
Prayer Ditties
Unity Now I lay me down to prayThat all this war will go awayAnd that our need for violenceWon’t overcome all our good sense I pray that…… Read more “Prayer Ditties”