alderman curry
collected closet doorknobs
lived reclusively with poco,
his faithful afghan
one clear evening,
he told poco to stay
and that he loved him
poco's senses caused him
to whine confusingly
alderman curry went into
the woods, took a rope hidden
in a hollow tree, said his last words,
'NOW I AM FREE TO BE'
at 5:15 the next morning,
alderman curry's hung,
lifeless, and limp body
was discovered by a worried poco
the faithful afghan did not
cry out an emergency yelp
for help, he just let his best friend
and master be.....his secret loyally safe
Another bloody weekend in Chicago
104 shot, 14 fatally
You know all about George Floyd
But those 118 tragedies? -- null & void
Every one shot a person of color
Every shooter a nonwhite
Where was Jesse Jackson's* loud voice *social justice warrior
Father Michael Pfleger?* -- absent from sight
David Brown** spoke up **Chicago Supt. of Police
He wants violent criminals
To serve longer prison minimals
How's that gonna play today
A 13 year-old-girl killed in a random drive-by
Two hours later a 3-year-old boy fatally shot
No pleas for justice raised, however
No shouts of systemic racist plots
Another deadly weekend in Chicago
Neighborhoods cowering in horror
Where was the outrage
Where were the alderman and Mayor
The gunfire rages
through the cracks
of neighborhood cages
as every fetid tenement ages
and voodoo economics suppress wages
of waitresses, cabbies and sages...
while the slick-shoe alderman engages
in taxing your turnip-blood in stages
and blue-jeaned billionaires decry outrages
of clothes-hanger abortions back-stages
and gang-banger rampages --
as this feckless dog-and-pony upstages
detonated death's tick-tock gauges
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Sam comes from that fantastic cathedral city,
Of majestic Coventry where there’s reconciliation,
Of people’s of different wartime allegiances,
For a brotherhood and forgiveness attestation;
He is partially sighted, born 1985 in the 80s mighty,
Went to Alderman Callow school, no compliances,
So he moved to specialist school Exhall Grange,
Had the purple house named after him for Judo,
Which his brother got him into for his range,
After broadcasting at Falmouth University to go;
He got silver at the 2007 Worlds, then again in 2010,
Bronze at the 2008 Paras, gold 2011, the Euro pen.
Sam came second in the 2012 Paralympics,
Third at the Euro 2015 Portugal Championships.
Politically correct that’s funny African-American’s should boycott Crayola The alderman is a person Too A busybody in other men’s matters I mean businessperson Human resources should be personnel Would hupersons make you more kind My writing may be esthetically challenged Or even intellectually challenged But then again I am not wearing Freud’s slip After this I think I’ll take a thought shower
Aqua concrete,
With skinned knees,
And that Alderman
Fat and
Inconspicuus,
Until mother
Filmed him.
The water slide,
Slick and Fun,
but not after
I sprouted
Pubic hair.
And then,
in winter, the
frozen air
Tempted me
To fornicate
In that very
same place.
I pray for
An earthquake,
To shatter and
Dismantle this
Deception
CHURCH PICNIC
There was no time, now was forever,
he said I love you, she believed him,
at seventeen they had to love and run.
Under cottonwoods the world was theirs
while the river kept on crying by,
and she never guessed it might be more than fun.
Her daddy was a Baptist preacher
he'd keep his little girl, if he could reach her,
but seventeen and picnics--life moves on;
and a girl shows her virginity
to the alderman who needs to see,
and the serpant in the garden waves it's tongue.
Her lavender was still a blessing,
She whispered words of her confessing,
he laid her down to to save her in his eyes,
under the cottonwoods, the need to cry
came too late for her to wonder why,
while her Daddy preacher man got ready to baptize.
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