I want to make a difference in this world To speak of it, well, there are no sounds I want to make a life that is well lived Improving the lives of those around me,                    …

How do we share yearnings when we cannot speak of them? Yearnings By Patricia Harris Tongue tied, Frustration cried. No words to say a tired mind, To speak the desire, The dreams behind.   Reaching out, Soul to soul, Hoping that though the Words will…

Profess satisfaction. Dissimulate the heart. Espouse altruism. Iveigle the spirit.

low earthworm stirrings given wings to take them up pay for heaven’s sake    

I spend too much of my breath wanting something I don’t have. I wish I had less of you. You crashed into me and I can’t get rid of you. I don’t want you. I don’t want you to want me. I don’t want your…

Concerning expression What cannot be expressed by taboo cannot be expressed by people in crisp, white suburban houses. What else cannot be expressed is like that which animals and babies cannot express. What exists in ticket lines and ATM transfers. Drug stores and allergy medicine….

02 2017 poetry marathon prompt: yearnings Another Day, Another Night by Paul Sanford I meet a lot of total strangers at the comedy open mics. Most of them are fifty years younger than I am. Last night I dragged my aged bones out across the…

axiomatic (adjective) /ak-see-uh-mat-ik/ it is true because I said it was true what other proof do you need? just look you can see for yourself how true it is I read on the internet someone told a story in which this exact thing happened see?…

This necessary orientation towards reality. Or rather, the representation of truth. He cannot explain what he has seen. Mental abstractions, thoughts, wants, impressions- a process of ideas confessing our ignorance Advantageous to whom? A necessary validation directed at the dunce limitations of philosophy… (however) Our…

Money, my honey Money is a party Money, my honey Money is gone Money, my honey Money gets down Money, my honey When have you gone? Money, my honey Where you come down Money, my honey I wonder where Is my money   Money, my…