BEEN THERE DONE THAT Little babes with belly gas Politicians showin’ their ass. Employees working over time Children made to tow the line. Old farts with nothin’ better to do When your neighbor wants to sue. Actors and their temperaments Landlords anxious for…
Category: Marathon Poem
Ameliorate (Hour 13)
It started as a feeling, then birthed into a thought. Took form within words of the mind that inspired your tongue to speak. From your voice, it was shared and became conversation, expounded upon, others took it and shaped it and passed it along to…
Owls
outside my widow every night the owls will hoot and take flight and then often stay out of sight you get a fright, you get a fright the packrats seek to avoid them by running along the tree stem the owls are looking to take…
Lucky # 13 Walk into a Bar
When Diabetes, Retinopathy, and Cancer walk into an Epstein Barr… It’s no joke!
Prompt 13: coffee talk memories
coffee talk memories moonbeams in the cold, black coffee quakes in the chipped cup just out of reach of my fingertips on that damn shelf you built for me: glass shards in concrete, wrapped in honey-stained fir… re-purposed dock planks where we first fucked, embraced…
Hour thirteen: Portrait of my gender as a subway
I am still a traveler in an unfamiliar land, Everyone knows where they’re going, how to hold on without falling, which set of doors will open next. Everyone arrives at a place that is warm and welcoming, but all I know is the sound of…
Insane (hour 13)
The greatest love story I know is Harley Quinn and the Joker. They pick each other again and again and again. No matter how violent or volatile or unhealthy, they keep slowly killing each other. We are all slowly dying anyway, so why not have…
Eunoia
Pour down your thoughts; Don’t vomit them out! Let them flow out of you.. Then Give them a direction.. You will witness a beautiful river flowing; A river, full of thoughts!!
2019 – Thirteen – For My First and Oldest Muse, ‘her’, A Confession
You were all smile and elbows. I was young and stupid and didn’t know that I would not forget the first time I saw you, all those many years ago. And we were close for what seemed like forever, and maybe it was. I wasn’t…
Hour 13 – Stupa
At the base sits a lion on each side in turn, they roar to the monks and pilgrims the keys for their journey: Love Compassion Joy Equanimity step by…