~the epic~
~reptiles & dust~
~with a narcissistic bent~
~if I don’t love me~
~who will~
~ponders the would-be philosopher~
~& there ya have it~
~these are a rage~
~& a sonnet~
~# nine~~alfalfa dreams~
~in some pastures alfalfa~
~sweet scent of first love~
~& the death of reason~
~weight of passion flower scent~
~rolling in the haymow~
~old men on car trips~
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~the epic~
~reptiles & dust~
~when he was a boy~
~daddy bought him heelies~
~so he could smooth glide~
~through the last few years of his life~
~before he was a number~
~on the wrong list~
~before he was a soldier~
~gone before he was~
~these are a rage~
~# nineteen~
~one nation stands~
~trouble with politicians~
~when their women demand new shoes~
~they are apt to ask what color~
~choose a nation~
~a people~
~name them enemy~
~steal their skin~
~walk first on~
~then in them~
~to hell with penny loafers~
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~Reptiles & Dust~
~soon after the turn of the century~
~Quodlibet won the Marija Cerjak award~
~for avant-garde/experimental writing~
~Quodlibet~
~The Hundred Bites~
~XV~
~never knew a preacher~
~who stood down easy~
~except those too timid~
~to stand up in the first place~
~it is a sad fact~
~that too many fathers & mothers~
~talk down to their children~
~there is so much~
~daughters & sons could teach them~
~they grow away from the knowledge~
~the why they are here~
~pigeonholed & block-dammed~
~encouraged to be all they can be~
~most of what they are not~
~naturally~
~XV. Children/Song of Life~
~listening to children’s voices~
~most anytime the all-day long~
~these whom never see a stranger~
~treads silently ‘neath the midst of them~
~a mourning service assembled~
~attended by bearers~
~one chosen spoken~
~of rabbits alive in the heath~
~children what they need to hear~
~no rambling list of qualifier quantifier~
~what you are & what you have become~
~need know only they are loved~
~each nomad seizes love on the run~
~a leaning toward moving spaces~
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~soon after the turn of the century~
~Quodlibet won the Marija Cerjak award~
~for avant-garde/experimental writing~
~Quodlibet~
~The Hundred Bites~
~XIV~
~I got to bathe first because I was oldest~
~my brother bathed last~
~because he was second of eight~
~& loved the least~
~that old galvanized tub of water was cold~
~& dirty damned bad~
~by the time he was plunked in~
~he was never as clean as the rest of us~
~ah hell nobody knew why~
~lazy lyin’ good-for-nothin’ cuss~
~he was always punished first though~
~learned to take it standing up~
~leather whip belt on his bare bony ass~
~when he went to prison
~his training paid off~
~he knew how to survive & grow~
~in a house of hate~
~now he’s a damned good monster~
~experiential~
~XIV. Community of the Damned~
~draw us a bath of muddy water~
~muted earth tones~
~name it life~
~stir in children’s laughter bubbles~
~a lifetime warrantee guaranteed~
~chromed steel handcuff~
~turn up the heat~
~amnesty for dead soldiers~
~a fistful of medals for families~
~who don’t give a damn anymore~
~left crying the nights~
~suffer us less~
~this cauldron steep~
~that we might achieve horizontal ascent~
~final resting place~
~become divided amongst a community of worms~
~with a sigh of relief~
~to belong at last~
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