Long Indulgences Poems

Greetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art form sui generis....

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Damian  CJ and the guys boarded
The 9 o'clock concord  flight that night
They were on Trinidadian ground 
Within two hours. Then rented a
Limo, chauffer included. When 
Four arrived on the site they noticed the...

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I…breathe again…
Meditating on flowers of my pasture, plucked with my eyes,
Resting…open, like buds blooming, and resting…

“Take me…” he said weakly, so softly in my ear…

I greeted the demon with the warmth in my eyes, 
Upon...

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This is a tale of ancient times
And a knight of valiant heraldry
Who followed true his knightly code,
The weight of righteousness his load,
All sheathed in heaven's grace he rode,
And practiced naught save chivalry.

From the Pope a...

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(continued from, "An Epistle Warning against Melancholia: an Allegory--Part I," where somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the...

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"Madame Bovary", a novel by French novelist Gustave Flaubert, in 1856. Flaubert reconstructed a conventional story of adultery into a lasting work of heartfelt humanity. Madame Bovary is considered Flaubert’s masterpiece, and, according to some,...

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if I had all the money that I ever wanted,
                  I suppose that I could travel the world;

...

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if I had all the money that I ever wanted,
                  I suppose that I could travel the world;
live...

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The bible say's 
you'll know my people
by the apples that fall from their tree
but what does that mean

The apples are, the fruit from the tree
the product that the tree produces
the fruits of religion
are sometimes creating...

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And it was there. Looking me in the eye, “I shall born you.” I was overcome with 
sadness.

Before I was born I died. I was one with everything. I was more alive then, then I...

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if I had all the money that I ever wanted,
                  I suppose that I could travel the world;
live...

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if I had all the money that I ever wanted,
                  I suppose that I could travel the world;
live...

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Once in a blue moon, in the circuit of the cryptic sky appears the transcendental fusion,
when the acquiescence of the sky emerges to display two heavenly bodies most exotic phases of union.

On those, mesmerizing venerated...

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Catholic

Stern but saintly Father Meissen 
scolded the parents for not having 
their baby boy baptized sooner. 
It was April, 1952,
inside the stained-glassed catholic church,
ensconced on sun-split Newlin street, 
avenue of pink oleanders and cracking sidewalks.
According...

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Prince of this world,
you've meddled in the affairs of mankind
since the beginning
From the time of the Egyptian pharaohs,
whose gigantic pyramidal tombs
had been built primarily by slave labor
A living testament to man's ingenuity and cruelty
Then you...

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"But love's a malady without a cure."
-"John Dryden"

Forbidden Song

The jury sits, pallid and grave,
well versed in the ways of "society" and "correctness",
he appears, drowned in confusion and numb to all else,
convicted of the dreary charge...

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Funeral in 1963


Beveled dusty cracked glass shielding Mother Mary enthroned,
Amidst flying angelic devotions atop whipped clouds of icy air,
Enslaved by an antique miracle made manifest in stained blood,
With silent invisible memorized prayers uttered in ancient...

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I’ve failed Him
So many times, in so many ways
Through transgressions
All along my path
Through indulgences
In sin and wrong
Through crimes
Which always harm

I’ve failed Him
In ways I can’t even describe
Left Him pained
Because He stood at my side
Caused Him...

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A broken mirror
A gustily reflection of misfortunes
I don’t recognise myself anymore
An honest look at my dishonesty
Yes, I’m a liar
The image distorted with each retreating step of shame
I take, and I move ten steps backwards in...

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Flamboyant words in hues of an imagination
Bold and vibrant, trembling
With expressions of enthusiasm, elation
Stimulating the mind, the heart, the soul
With joy, hope, love so alive
It feels like the center of His sacrifice,
Healing the darkness, covering...

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what have you seen w/ those sweetness eyes? 
		at the bus stops, in the malls, breathing the cold dead air of february, the crackered
soup of weirdo.
		childhood beds, the smell of christmas, possible selves, assumptions.
		avatars, siblings,...

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Has mankind really changed in several thousand years?
The Canaanite and Norseman would cut down the trees,
and propped them up as gods, to appeal to them as they please.
All the while never realizing that the trees...

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I’m a tightrope walker, strung between 
the hedonistic abyss of winter break and 
the unforgiving canyon of organic chemistry.

The stack of spring syllabuses are a prophecy whispered 
in Latin. The story they tell haunts my...

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(Dedication: For Ann)


Lasting
Impressions
Discovery
Images and ideas
Profound


Lovely
Foundation
Reconstruction
Clash of vibrant feelings
Abrupt


Going
Away now
Interrupted
Creepy crawling creature
Stinging


Leaving
Emotive
Contradictions
Lingering combustion
Burnt-out


End game
No money
Confronting loss
Empowering new face
New notes


Sultry
Sensuous feel
Touch of magic
In between the odd lines
Wordplay


Sadness
Tears roll down
Streaks of wetness
Melancholia presides
Aqua


Look up
See new frames
Picture portraits
Niche random...

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Threading Hunger’s Needle
                                by...

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