Long Deadbeat Poems

O Aphrodite,
Grecian fertility goddess
Matriarch idol of the womb,
your wise children love not reproducing
— Ancient Zion chant
heard in the echo chambers
of the caverns along the Aegean sea

Dwindling cries, dashed on the rocks
in luxurious maternity wards,
are slowly...

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Devlan Caldwell Bachenmeister owned the largest factory that Pinkerton, New Hampshire ever had. 
Almost everyone in town was working at that plant, but not, of course, my cousin Maynard’s dad.

Uncle Lester simply wouldn’t work for...

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  On white lines on valiant wheels
I head north leaving behind the City of Sails
       with its humourless streets,
    its casino steel and glass Sky...

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Look at the president
dressed in patriotic drag
See how he’s bubble wrapped
in his American kilt flag
Notice how he sashays about
in his patriotic beauty pageant dress
Asking you to give your country more,
when he always found a way...

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grabbing at straws the luck of the draw
some live big some live raw
a few like gods on hills of gold
every things fine just do what were told

A man on the corner needs something to eat
money...

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Hare trigger instincts
always served Roger well
He had an oh, no-no lettuce nose — 
a hyper-keen sense   when to leave
Roger was rabbit good
at knowing when
to skip out    on his responsibilities ...

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It's when aristocracy begins to feel like a mid-uphill battle
It's when the armageddon features evil on both sides 
and,
the good are speculating from the auditorium
It's when a 10year old is ducking depleted uranium in Benghazi
It's...

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Sex is the sharing of the souls.
When I am inside you, you are inside me.
When our eye’s meet, our shame meets.

It’s ironic how I can only meet your gaze in the most intimate moment of...

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All these years at home, me and my momma alone
Daddy on the run, headed for the sun, he must of been..
Because I obviously wasn't his sunshine

Growing up wishing you were there when I had something...

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Sharp alien quiet accosts our nuclear fallout,
Twin beds and I between them,
Remnants of faces
Laughter, tears,
Exchanges deadline in future tense,
The decimating absence of marriage
To anything whole--

This uniform hotel room mien
Eats emotional in-betweens
R B G
Symmetrically channeling Western...

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(As a child I loved watching Peter Pan every year on T.V.  When I grew, I had some serious questions for him).

A Conversation With Peter Pan

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a special night
I have...

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A football star with super speed,
Our prom king, Kyle, has gone to seed.
No longer likely to succeed,
He's out of work and hooked on weed.

Behind you's Jennifer, the one
Who led our cheers and planned our fun.
Most...

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I used to blame myself 
For your absence in my life
I thought maybe you didn’t love me
Maybe I was right

Your in my life always leaving 
without a care
But i should expect that from a deadbeat

A...

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I will attempt to explain this using the following analogy.
I went For Help to BluePearl Veterinary,
with a feline medical emergency.
BluePearl saw me coming and thought, "That is a hornet nest,
and I'm going to put my...

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My father drank himself half to death.
I tried to understand why.
But I became stumped and hurt every time I thought about it.
He became drunk and argumentative but always assured us he never meant it.

I became...

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I know a deadbeat system when I see one 
 Charging 25 cent in a public bathroom for napkins
When it should be free
 Sharing a public bathroom with men and women 
When the bathroom should...

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Wouldn't you rather~

Wouldn't you rather be dead?
Maybe shoot yourself in the head?
Over my dead heart, I'd never want to be a zombie like you.
The sight of your limbs are rotten all the time.
All synonyms say...

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Dad 
born into white hot poverty  
eldest son of an adulterous drunk
abandoned
man of the house at five
white privilege.
His step father , also a booze bunny and bigot to boot...
to escape 
he went to vocational...

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NOTE: I don't find the time, neither do I have much inclination, to write a great deal these 
days. However, the occasional new piece gets composed, and this is one. I would like to take...

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Find myself alone on this tropical island without a care 

being bit by savage mosquitos, painful when totally bare,

then I remember my old mothers remedy crushed marigold

this island is full of them, they certainly do...

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Dear Blabby,
     I seem to be in a real pickle in regard to my wife Candy and my eighteen-year-old son Cal.  He works in my bakery after school.  The...

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I walk my life, a subway station
Where dirt consorts
The air around.
It pounds my nape,
It flames my mind
With sights and fates
And sounds.

Above, a tram goes up the alley
Tinged with canary hue.
Below, my wit:
What void, what valley:
It...

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Black Lives Matter  

They gave me a college education
But left me unemployed
But they say
Black lives matter
I won 7 Grammy awards
I didn't get a ceremony to recognize my work 
But they say
Black lives matter
I have...

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How can you say I was never there for you!!
When you needed someone to be by you doing the Lord's Work,
did I not try to give you support when there was no one.
When your feet...

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Tomorrow came...
Everything... had died...
The world was so empty...
Everything... was dead...
The trees and the flowers...
The sun and light showers...
Everything... died...
Sunday came...
Followed by Saturday...
The end came...
Same old day...
Where are you?
Did you die too?
I'm sorry to say...
I'm done...

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