We….. ….get up before dawn, eat, shower and take mass transit to work, if we are lucky…. We…. cannot work in the safety of our homes, Working for the minimum wage. No hazard pay or wealth incentives or federal/state support, always exposed to Covid_19. We could die leaving our families and estates poorer for patriotism?Continue reading “Essential Worker, a poem.”
Category Archives: Poetry
The Pool Goddess must be mad me….a poem.
Not a pool tablein sight. All of them are covered, pool cues put away in dusty racks. No beer or rum flows, all are bottled unused, Because the bars closed. The people are in the streets, awaiting brutality.
Caged
Bars on my windows.Bars on my doorway, Put them up ourselves. Keep us safe, keeping our Troubles at bay. Safe in our homes we haveBecome imprisoned. Who imprisoned us?Did we do it? We can’t blame those Who would invade our Fortress, our home. Because they too are imprisoned. Who imprisoned us?Did ‘The Man’ cage us?Well,Continue reading “Caged”
I ain’t no angel….a poem
Sorry, I ain’t no Angel…. I am man-shaped, and I continuously burn, a living yellow flame…. From days of old, people have runned from my embrace, Fearing the passions I would share with them. Why do they flee me? In school, I would sometimes set my desk on fire just sitting with daydreams of loss….Continue reading “I ain’t no angel….a poem”
Hard Roads to Hoe, a poem.
Three times in my life,someone has tried to mug me,only once did they take my money…. In ’88 I met an old friend fromelementary school,whom after gaining my trust,relieved of my wallet andmoney, and ripping my favoriteblack turtle neck. I called the police who madea report,then promptly did nothing. Years later at nightI walked thoseContinue reading “Hard Roads to Hoe, a poem.”
But there’s no orgies….
Living alone, I want the touch of a man. But the bars are all closed, or filled with old men just having a drink. They are filled qith married couples, and no one trusts a stranger: covid makes everyone hide. But are there orgies, where everyone is certified covid free? I mean, just a fewContinue reading “But there’s no orgies….”
I never knew….a poem
Detroit, where everyone was econocally free and the towers stood proud and free, Where people could work for themselves to express their passions,and such worries a silly sitcom. Racism didn’t exist and healthcare was free. HIV wasn’t heard of because it was cured inthe 70’s likePolio in the 50’s. I visited the moontwice: on businessContinue reading “I never knew….a poem”
….through divine eyes…., a poem.
So, which is it? The chicken or the egg? Before you can observe it, what is the state of a molecule? Goddess knows, (or if you want, God), She sits back and watches not the molecule but humans to see actions and reactions. I know not what She sees, I only knows She watches me,Continue reading “….through divine eyes…., a poem.”
Enemy?
At the age 12,I ws told by mybest friendthat I was theantichrist. This frightened me,!nd made me laugh. Frightened,that I was evil,and would go hell. But I laughed, I did several things. Me the antichrist? Shoot! I couldn’t evendefend myselfagainst the neighborhoodbullies the Heislers,who made me run. And my souland spirit my own…. ….free….
Beware of the food you eat….
I love old fashioned donuts, in a hate (love) relationship with cigarettes. I don’t eat three squares a day, nor Walk nearly enough. In arrogance, I’m the mightiest sorcerers and in humility so little I cannot see me from eye of the Milky Way, It’s sight so fine, seeing everything. But what I see disturbsContinue reading “Beware of the food you eat….”