AN APPLE IS

 

An alternative

To the doctor,

‘Twas given by Eve

To Adam

Thence known as

Adam’s apple.

As for me,

I once ate

Eight

Apples

On the way to

Annapolis.

 

Not known as

Particularly

Pomaceous,

Still,

An apple is

An ample capital.

 

        

   Sugar Tree, TN

   Sept. 30, 2014

FROM ADOLF TO TULI

 

From power to piss

The fall into

Degeneracy by

The science of

Manufacturing

Public opinion

The world's demon

Transmutes us all

Into diversified multi-

Culturo pack mules

And we do the bidding

Of our brainwashers,

Loving the resistors

To striving fools

Like those who would

Set straight that

Hissing lie.

 

 

Sept. 12, 2014

Mt. Vernon, TX

 

 

YET HOW OFTEN

How I howl and rage inside!
Yet how often I must hold back
The flood of feeling
Of action,
And cool the kerosene
That runs within my veins.

How I yearn to scream my song!
Yet how often I must bite it,
That wild horse – truth –
That frantic one
That bucks the walls inside
Its cranium corral

How often I Don't Live Today!
Yet how often this morbid worm,
This bringer of light
Expiates my all
So that I lay it down
To let go my blue condition.


June 8, 1995
Nonsan, ROK
 

THIS BURDEN, LIFE

 

This burden, life

So weak

So weary

Lovelamp’s shadow

Crystalline

As before

God awful

Pitybrain

The loveless love

Gone static spirit

Blackened soul

Cursed by Thomas curlews 

This burden, life

Oh weak

Heavy heart

Go

Where magpies nest

In the deep well, the

Underwater trench

Forgotten

Meaningless good works

Buried

In time

And lost to the mind 

This burden, life

Unhinged

Meandog town

Stay

Unrecognized

Vented and bleeding

Clasp the vacant gaze

To my dumb bosom

Hold on

Failing sight

Medicate me

Unwanted unlover.

 

August 1, 1992

Santa Fe, NM