Best Goddam Poems

This Ain't a Goddamn Country Song

You know I love my Rock and Roll

I wouldn't write a Country Song

'Cause that's not how I roll

This song it...

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The green village, the colored city, the ever familiar locality
Each path, tree, house, turn, each native I have left behind
But creepers, hedges have entangled with...

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That "FEELING" ...

The one that makes you believe
That everything in your life,
No matter how messed up or negative,
Is actually wonderful ...
The feeling that, for a...

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A true mirror would reflect you truly without omission or apology;
It would bring to the shore your shadow and show you fully.
After burning down your...

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I can't make you understand how I feel,
And I've spent a lifetime trying to explain it.
Chances are YOU'LL never experience it,
As you are in the...

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and some days sitting, looking out of the
open door, to the tropical sunlit yard, 
feels like being in a Goddam tomb;
but when the long-haired girls...

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(There's a thirteenth 'zodiacal' constellation, Ophiucus, The Serpent Wrestler/Holder, or the "Twelth Symbol," as here used. In some ancient cultures, serpents were revered as feminine...

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How foolish am I?!?
YEARS beyond our sad end.
Multiple relationships past the
Joy of all that we shared and were,
I doubt I even (fleetingly) enter your mind,
Let...

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Schack lives matter for the simple reason that I goddam F' in said so!!!! signed Daniel Schack as in Daniel in the lion's den and...

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and a mobile howitzer (a mortar track) 
had blown-up,
nothing remained,  except the flattened 
bottom;
and what was left of the crew,  you could 
have...

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- and, anyway, who breaks wind over double-M, a. k. a. Manson,

Marilyn?

I'll give a ride on my razor any day to

The-Second-Prime-of-Nine-to-the-Sixth,

who was around long before...

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With a great plan have I sojourn to this world
A plan to hurt my earthly parents,
To cause a non-lasting joy amidst them-
Through my purposeful death
And...

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Will the angels sing
  When the old matador
 stares down his final bull?
Knowing that his dance 
Of death’s fine procession
Grows ever more still?
And sooner...

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Life you are a whore

We took a vow to live happily, healthily, with fidelity for life
Just like a wedding promise between man and wife
Time has...

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WAYLON, WILLIE, MINNIE, LORETTA, AND --KEITH RICHARDS???
     (AIN'T NO COUNTRY MUSIC ANYMORE)

There ain't no country music in this town.
Cain't go out...

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