Poems

Two Stanzas On Keats

The emptiness of Keats is his appeal,

Insubstantial as a symphony

Or sonata. Only what I feel

Fills the crevices in what I see.

Robin thumping on an empty can,

The nothingness of his philosophy,

Devoid of life, consequence, elan -

With just a shadow of reality.

7-21-13

 

“Wardrobe Malfunction”

She showed a little tit

On national TV.

Americans were outraged

And their children's lives were ruined.

After some committees,

And apologies were made,

God forgave the Yankees,

And the sun resumed its course.

7-20-13

 

The Force

There's something in my mind

Preventing me to be

Assertive.

It has undermined my life.

Once I strained an effort

Against a group and went

Into shock.

My daddy in the ground

With the wife he didn't want

Has ended me forever.

From underneath a rock

Can my imagination write?

7-20-13

 

Futility

I see where you are going.

If governments were better,

Perhaps you would have chosen otherwise.

But governments are busy
Incarcerating gays,

Murdering black children

And acquitting their assailants,

And fighting bloody wars

To verify their gods.

They have no time for science

Or money better spent

To understand the psyche

Or give succor and relief.

Ask Reagan – how they loved him -

Who is probably in hell.

Or Turing who saved England

And was never recognized.

Or Rand –

Who thought she understood the world.

7-20-13

 

Welfare freaks and hoodlums

Welfare freaks and hoodlums

Covered with tattoos.

Headphones playing Bach?

Of course. And Shostakovitch.

Living off the government,

Except the sick and needy.

Paper books are obsolete

And everything is metal.

Be another Shakespeare.

Too many hundred years.

It can never happen

Despite how good you are.

Shakespeare's education
Is out of my purview

Along with everything he did

And who he ever was.

Imagination's genius.

Did Einstein say that?

Or was it Johnny Keats?

I've no imagination.

Just a plethora of words.

And everybody thinks that he has talent.

My talent was I was in love with Keats.

7-20-13

 

Irreverence

I made a funny comment about

Janov and his scream.

I laughed at Jacqui Schiff and Eric Berne.

Was EST revealed like something

In a drunken dream,

A theory only simple minds could learn?

She said, “You are an ass and these are

Educated men,

With knowledge that goes far beyond your ken.”

I said, “You're absolutely right.

I'm nothing but a dope.

So I'll extend my dopery to popery

And hope

That pompous hat comes crashing from the Pope.”

7-19-13

 

Disillusion

England is no better

Than anybody else.

Oscar Wilde just wasn't quite enough.

It locked up gays in 1952,

Even one who'd kept the nazis out.

Governors (like Christie)

Propose to veto all

Relief or love or life

For homosexuals.

England had a slave trade,

Robust, alive and rich.

America shoots kids who don't have guns.

Republicans and bigots

Are certifiable.

These twisted egos

(Texans will not think)

Believe that Jesus for some reason

Gives a crap for them.

7-20-13