Long Coops Poems

In one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.

But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in Thought Experiments
about what would my optimal Eden Paradise.
restoring peace and...

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In these United States of America, there is a little town not very far off the beaten path. Neither gold nor silver has ever been mined in or near this town of fertile delta soil....

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Global pride! Greatest story-theme worldwide! Oceanic!
Voyage liner - Atlantic! British cruise ship! Titanic!
Born in the yard of Harland and Wolf! Floated to venture!
Who did ever dream of a deadliest wreck- adventure?

Christened after Titans of the...

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The CoOp featured Women and Families
and their Matriarchal Allies,
often LGB and/or T,
and even some curiously queerer,
but not meaner
in appropriate demeanor
regardless of habitat
and camouflage
and costume,
ready for a folksy ball,
come as you neighborhood are
at Three Sisters CoOp.

The...

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The alarm goes off and I rise up, for a moment foggy from sleep.
I look through the curtain and stare out at the world in front of me.
Where am I ?  My mind is...

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Boring summer
Idle time and
Empty streets
Endless days
Watching cars
And spinning dreams.
Sitting
Feet on the ground
Looking down
For something to see
Music drifting
Through open windows
Words from a song 
"It hurts to be in love"
Made me feel 
Lost
Somewhere between fourteen and twenty.
A...

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Well, I read in the paper today that Senator Feinstein has again gone berserk!
With the plethora of problems we have, she wants to give chickens a perk!
Never mind that millions of souls are out of...

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A sly fox invaded the chicken coop
Fostering ill will in a fowl-tasting soup
With feathers festering in a cruel stew
Good hens, the fox makes a mockery of you

The fox chooses faves; others it condemns
Roost rulers say...

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Doctors told the old farmer his soul was soon to be his Makers!
"Spare me, Lord", he pled, "I must farm these hundred-forty acres!
My wife ain't able to hoe or mow or handle the old John...

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In 1965, I was enlisted, 
To serve in the battle at Vietnam
For ten senseless years, I fought 
Until the fall of Saigon
 
A medic, my trade, 
In battle- I'd nurse 
All the wounded soldiers... 
The...

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Childhood in New York

Childhood in New York 
 
Pocket change dangling from open pockets 
candy stores soda fountains five and dimes 
root beer floats licorice sticks baseball cards 
and chewing gum 
stick ball bats against...

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In many colours I come and many places inhabit
when in South America crabs are my favourite
I chase them with great glee and delicately 
Their flesh pick out of their shells and pincers

Come to Africa, when...

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Animals in top hats,
Ride bicycles en road,
Spoked wheels and pedaled spats,
Round about, in ornamental spode. 

Animals in monocles,
Spectate in obeisance,
Cuffed by inked chronicle:
Renascence-linked complacence.

Animals in Model Ts,
Toot along en route,
To queue below burlesque marquee,
Bloating bruit...

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Son, you haven't really experienced life,
(And it will surely make you pine for a wife!),
Until you are thrust into noisy open-bay coops,
With fifty other snorting and snoring troops!

The sergeants demand that things be just right.
Bunks...

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Remember Humpty Dumpty
Who fell off the wall?
Well, it wasn't no accident
We can prove he didn't fall

It was a government conspiracy
They were testing a new glue
They wanted him to volunteer
But he wasn't wanting to

So, all the...

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Frank Lane

1877-1913

RS was my best friend,

A friend ever to the end.

Together we footed and mounted 

The pliant limbs of the Hybrid Tree

On County Road,

And wetfully whistled,

As with birds in the warm zephyrs 

Of summer solstice,

At...

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Why do we go around seeking each others frowns?
You’ve got to let go of preconceptions to make friends down town.
Begrudge no man his time in hand.
A little known something isn’t enough to go around.
Attentively looking...

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“Kerala Man Hides Lover For 11 Years, In His Home While Living With Parents”


How dare you, hypocrites, poeticizing true love,
And, damn, dare to hate me for choosing my love mate!
How sweetly you speak of splendid...

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And this is a sad carol,
Our voice of grief every yuletide,
And our song of plea and prayer, 
Now and in every Nativity hereafter.

A partridge, two turtle doves,
Three French hens and four birds a-calling,
Yet on the...

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Uncle Spivy and Dad were in business
It was located in the downtown
They sold poultry and eggs at whole sale
To all the super markets around

Dad would load up lots chicken coops
Go to Arkansas in the big...

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Why deep in the night do thoughts mimic the sky
Dark unknown sights fraught with cynical eye
Things seem burdened and heavy shut not to pry
Mourning for morning who levy stars 'fore they die

A quiet that echoes...

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Earning our living we went lands near, far
Masters, slaves all alike life we enjoyed;
Then came pandemic - poison in nectar
Abandoned by masters, all joy destroyed.

Migrate! No commuters; we got perplexed
Every small automobile we got filled;
Like...

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when the world
ran out of
everything
hugs, handshakes and cuddles
were no more

there was COVID
the nineteenth offspring
of eighteen previous pathogens
a mutation for the nations

picket fences were gone
and even the plentiful
lacked
in embraces

a chicken stood a chance
hidden somewhere in the...

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Beaux Coux Hiaku by Horn

Honest President
Honoring what we have meant
How about a hint.

To the issue sticks
A clock has many ticks
Must have missed my kicks.

To be candidate
Must be much to contemplate
And can hardly wait.

Guesses come in...

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