No one goes down to crazy town
they stay put or don't care,
but floods seep
tides rise
snakes swim.
Crazy town does not knock
before it comes in.
Murderous are the many
who though few
do much when they do.
Bedlam glowers
bawls naked from gothic bell towers,
the batty belch bawdily
in the public square.
The cops run guns drawn
but they run the other way.
Crazy runs the subway
green are the goblins of crime.
Crazy craps in the street,
rats deplore the mess;
it's all so cruddy and awful
change the tv channel,
or turn the volume down
on high-jinxing, carjacking,
dog nabbing,
crazy town.
Categories:
bawdily, poetry,
Form: Free verse
He saw the world in burlesque,
light dancing upon the stage
The great blue fanning ocean
and rainbow colored pastie orbs
Caught between the music and the
shadow of the extreme
The curtain falling deftly marking
the beginning and the end
His dreams left to wander
search the darkness for a home
To strip off their makeup and surrender
what tomorrow will disdain
Where back in the footlights all chaos
and disorder will bawdily remask
Teasing what fantasy hides in fear
—as an Angel sheds its wings
(The New Room: November, 2021)
Categories:
bawdily, night,
Form: Free verse
Hortense Reads a Romance Novel
By Elton Camp
The cover picture is easy to understand
Beautiful woman with bare-chested man
Into her lusty eyes he does peer
Their intentions are quite clear
It’s a book designed only to sell
So needn’t be written very well
Sexual scenes loosely connected
From such drivel is expected
Unrealistic expectations it arouses
As the couple bawdily carouses
Perhaps I have no right to bash
Say only a loser reads such trash
Since I’ve never read a single one
How can I say they’re not fun?
At least it gives Hortense a thrill
And, for her, it must fill the bill
Categories:
bawdily, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Moon cooled the breezy night,
Its golden glaze made one realize it was full,
There was one little star just beneath the moon,
Moon lorded over it majestically,
As star shone in its insignificant light,
That one could notice it,
Was good enough for the star,
As it snuggled underneath the huge moon,
All of us knew all along,
That the star was bigger than hundred thousands of moons put together,
But it maintained its distance and kept its profile low,
Probably in real life too this appears to be a desirable rule,
Significance lies in the able keeping distance and in being diminutive,
Rather than do inflated flaunt bawdily and do nothing when it comes to task.
Categories:
bawdily, star, star,
Form: Free verse