Long Jax Poems

Inevitable death defines afterlife

I mull mortality 
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity – 
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emanate as cosmic atomic 
bipedal hominids replete roof lee wax
during a...

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"He made a difference."

Gramps, my mother's father, 
Dave Luke -- my grandfather, 
a tall unlettered white (decidedly white) 
Louisiana man -- was born August 1888.  
He lived 87 years.  He grew under 
the...

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get back to the basics busting fat laces running the bases
it used to be cool to obey the golden rule yet that went out the door in 64
open the door for your neighbor then you...

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When I was just a wee young thing 
I was taught life's lesson well    
Ere instead of childhood revelry 
mine would be a children's hell    
   ...

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I only be looking down now, looking inside myself now,
not head set in defeat but reflection, not the thoughts but the actual events that happened, wild flower child, yea right boom boy im a power...

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after all the idiots who followed Camping
found themselves up shit’s crick
after May of 2011 &
after all the morons hoping & “praying”
that they would get a “get out of life free” card
with the ending of the...

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Hiding Under My 3rd Grade Desk
David J Walker 

Mrs. Pollards smile 
Was enough to reassure every member
Of her third-grade class 

That their world was secure 
As the crass voice in the 
Crackling PA speaker announced...

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Bello (hello)let me tell you about some Minions
Brightly covered single-cell organisms
Small yellow cylindrical creatures
With one eye and sometimes two
Not sure why . . . 
Minions love to wear dungarees and goggles
Not sure why . ....

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A young dark haired girl playing jax upon a sidewalk
The Bronx, 1930’s, oozing ethnicity and a strange sort of talk

Wrist cocked, jax spew, red ball bouncing, bouncing
If time stood still, we can see her rejoicing

What...

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Two carnies 
Eighteen small town county fairs
Six furiously hot summer days.

Jax , boisterously handsome, kept the women entertained, 
While Grandpa Ralph picked items out of their diaper bags and purses.
If he had any conscience at...

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I  the fisherman,
you  the Queen,
we ate the candy in between,
the lobby and the mezzanine,
you took the time to read a book
and taught the servant s
how to cook
though royalty n'er took a look.

We squandered...

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THE HIJACKER WHO WAS HIJACKED

The mission is the pursuit of Caicedo,
the race has been on since the January set-go,
keepin' the paparazzis tongue in closed bridle.
Call Liverpool Big Jax of the Jungle,
and Chelsea, Richie, with cash...

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After Dinner
David J Walker

I can still hear the clanking of
Silverware and ceramic dishes after dinner 

As the sink filled with hot water 
Clearing, washing, and drying 

The suds of Ivory Liquid dishwashing soap
Guaranteed to help...

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Nothing was wrong with the leap;
It was made according to plan,
but the design was interrupted
by the abruptness of the plunge.
Maybe… there was a change of heart
somewhere in midair.
It is marked by a yelp of despair.
The...

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Females could'nt escape my pain
If she be the one who caused that
well let's say it's because I'm all bad
Not black but an Odyssey 
Bouncing back in white noise
Count the scars now a Star shines
A speaker...

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The brain beams like the brightest light,
once to the left then once to the right;

Unlimited storage for all those silly facts 
like a big box of endless toys and jax;

Once to the left then once...

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(Continued from The Devil Boy Part One)


Upon his back Mercy rides
into the blackness they fly
Demon or not his black heart bleeds
he's fallen for Mercy and with her he flees
She whispers softly into his ear
what is...

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I made a birthday wish one night
while blowing out my candles' light.
I wished my dad would let me get
a dog to keep as my own pet.

I looked for four-leaf clovers too
in hopes my wish would...

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I'd rather let this world destroy me
Than destroy anything in this world
Call it cowardly
Call it spineless
Call it anything but a lack of love.

The Great Dream is eternal love.
We all dream of it and play upon...

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