Reflection

Today

New things soon get old.

You try them for a spell,

And then you crave the past

Although it didn't work as well.

Long hairs have their likes,

Not bludgeoned till they're blue

By loud and shallow music.

They're on this planet too.

Once they whistled Verdi.

He pleased the common men.

They crowded into Shakespeare.

The world was smarter then.

1-15-13

 

Ducks

A goon from a show about ducks

Said when a faggot f-cks

He is committing a sin.

I read about the din

His holy words begat.

Who but a brainless Christian

Thinks of that?

Republicans have unremitting ways.

Who cares what any -sshole thinks of gays?

1-15-14

 

TA

Transactional Analysis

Was surely guaranteed

To make a sick man sicker,

And drive the sane to weed.

Catchy little sayings -

As Yankee as they come -

Meant to reach the masses,

And edify the dumb.

1-15-14

 

Reflection

I hope her taste in verse

Does not extend to me.

Ginsberg, Thomas, Whitman

Are her loves in poetry.

She told me I'm a genius,

The ultimate to say.

I hope this doesn't mean that I'm

As terrible as they.

1-15-14

Truths

What good is truth?

It won't make you live

Any longer -

Water through a sieve -

Entertaining -

Something that you read -

Evaporates

In an urgent need.

1-14-14

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