Poems

Poem For My 43rd Birthday To end up alone in a tomb of a room without cigarettes or wine– just a lightbulb and a potbelly, grayhaired, […]

Poetry it takes a lot of desperation dissatisfaction and disillusion to write a few good poems. it’s not for everybody either to write it or even […]

Prayer In Bad Weather by God, I don’t know what to do. they’re so nice to have around. they have a way of playing with the […]

Pull A String, A Puppet Moves each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, […]

Question And Answer he sat naked and drunk in a room of summer night, running the blade of the knife under his fingernails, smiling, thinking of […]

Rain a symphony orchestra. there is a thunderstorm, they are playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats under the trees and run inside […]

Rain Or Shine the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below on the ground are chunks […]

Raw With Love little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won’t flinch and I won’t blame you, as […]

Revolt In The Ranks I have just spent one-hour-and-a-half handicapping tomorrow’s card. when am I going to get at the poems? well, they’ll just have to […]

Rhyming Poem the goldfish sing all night with guitars, and the whores go down with the stars, the whores go down with the stars I’m sorry, […]