Best Tailpipes Poems

My father’s timber array arrived on an 
overloaded Diamond Reo flatbed. 
It dumped oak scraps, leafless dead-woods, 
inspiring last metamorphosis to 
warming fires come winter’s weather. 

Empty, truck leaves then heaves 
into a scrubby alley 
squeezing by barely. 
With its narrow fit made 
it disappearing...

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Voices drifting between the branches 
Swept away by the evening chill
Hurried footsteps and loved ones pulled close 
First light from fires kindled 
Smoke slowly curling into the darkening sky
Loud clangs from vendors closing up shop 
Exhaust from tailpipes fills the frigid air 
Puff, puff, puff….
Greedily...

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My illusion is fading as life slips away
Like a snake sheds its skin that gets lost though each day
Still begins with a sunrise, of course! I awake,
Life's past lessons less certain, though I may yet break
Bread with friends (the survivors I'm able to reach!)
But does...

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Worshippers of the shallow, whorish Hollywood stars
Imitators of the gangster rapper’s hateful raves

They drive small vibrating Japanese cars, with big tailpipes
Unconscious to reality, caught in the dropout’s trance

Fatherless children stumbling behind cell phoned welfare queens
Products of rainbow partying, painted teenage hookers

The indiscriminate lives of the...

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