Best Big Shot Poems

A true story.

Here I was,
23 or 24...
Classed an "Executive"
NYC Dept Store Chain,
"Executive" label meant
I could work overtime
For one half of my normal salary...
But a fool...

Read more of this work...

Honoured to be invited to speak at a one day workshop,

I survey the audience to decide when the lecture should stop.

We all agree that 10am...

Read more of this work...

Rain is brewing; 
black clouds hang over the Cockpit Country.
Them rainclouds have a habit of shifting colors like a lizard.
The smell of the pending shower...

Read more of this work...

I used to think poetry was about expression
(but some it seems would rather make it a competition)
I used to think beautiful words were meant to...

Read more of this work...

Saturday, February the 14th of the year 2015
It's no Valentine's Day in the Great White North
It's the big Hockey Night in Canada
And to these fans,...

Read more of this work...

You’re at the intersection in your car,
that damn device held pressed against your ear.
You’re unaware, but we know who you are: 
the one away from...

Read more of this work...

THE UN-BEETABLE BUG


Simplicity, elasticity, beauty in the thirties,
not like some sedans, ugly and beastly

This popular car and it's history from the past,
from it's World War...

Read more of this work...

The lawyer's named Julius
a veritable ebriosus
(in Queen's English:  perm'nently pissed)
he takes a last swig
gives a belch as of pig
from the bench: "Ouch!  Again...

Read more of this work...

I am dreaming
I am fantasizing
On how I want to put them in your face
Oh! Nate, my fate,  
they are a set
I use for bait.
Just...

Read more of this work...

My phone is being tapped; I’m sure of it
I called a government guy a nitwit
     Why did I post that blog?
...

Read more of this work...

“Expresso Shot”

He drank tibetan milk tea 
from his saucer
like a cloistered munk 

his conversation 
was hushed and tinctured 
with fountains of try-too-hard satire 

he spoke...

Read more of this work...

He looked at that boy with pain in his eyes 
and said I'm sick and tired of seeing all of     ...

Read more of this work...

hardball demagogue
ruthless big shot Willie Stark-
women, gambling, guns






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "Hollywood Haiku" via wattpad.com...

Read more of this work...

It was about 10 am when Brick finally made it to his office
he was just about to sit down when his phone rang
"23rd Homicide "...

Read more of this work...

Standing on the shore of Kimsey Lake,
Watching as each boat circled out in front
They'd cast my way and fish by fish they'd take,
Witnessing this time...

Read more of this work...