Long Manholes Poems

When I was a child in Los Angeles, you could size up groups approaching by watching their movements.

I remember this gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while looking down to see if...

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Some may say grand dragon others grand wizard either or it began in 60s everything was a bit chaotic the death of John f Kennedy Bobby Kennedy pope John XXlll my birth and Martin Luther...

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When I was only two bricks and a ticky high I wrote my first ever treatise

Three blind mice unbeknown to me highly philosophical not just to please

The Gods of poetry duty bound on their quest...

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what do you need to be told
to make you capable of pragmatic liberation
which could be the foundation to a new
assessment of the inevitable
darkness is our measure but never our limit
its manic prism reflects everything all...

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The earth moans the earth and blood is soaked into dirt, the beatitude stands still and the mountain goat is grazing patiently on the hill. The birds are conducting Sunday morning mass and the leaders...

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A Kidney Tale

It is a sorry tale that greeted this writer in his early morning read....
Of a schoolboy and his kidney that had to be separated in earnest..

Headlined Boy Loses kidney After Falling Into Uncovered...

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hear others out there, just beyond my wall-wrapped sharing space
  they break on through, sneaking inside my head
  far above, front-nosed pilots point high-flying seated people tubes
  passengers squeezed in tight, some...

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might’ve eaten you up &
spit you out, might’ve drown
you out with the hurricane of
late, might’ve drained your pockets,
might’ve taken you for all you had
& cheated you of what you dreamed,
but for some reason,
some sweet reason,
the...

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Old wooden houses
In need of a paint
According to the authorities
The red faded roof
The white peeling walls
The veranda worn bare
By the children who lived there
And under the floor, thru manholes and more
They got a fright, One...

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the rain that drowned the sidewalks
dampened down the night-time heat
creating steam through manholes
from the pipes beneath the street

and set against this backdrop
of a vibrant city beat
swarms of taxis stung the air
with horns stuck on repeat

as...

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Sewers possess a beauty all their own
belching gas you can hear them hiss and groan.

A maze that stretches for hundreds of miles
they remove our stench and leave us with smiles.

Such an efficient waste removal tube
if...

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The stops signs ‘yield’ to our egos
The traffic lights flash red as we go!
The dust we kicked up as we blast through
The paper waste that drifts on the smoke filled air

The giant potholes swallow our...

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At first, only a few droplets
fall from heaven to quench the heat.
And like drips of perspiration,
splashes start to freckle the street.

What begins as a light sprinkle
morphs into a raging downpour.
And water pools around manholes,
for flooded...

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I sat today, thinking of you.
So, I thought selflessly.
It was a disgusting day too.
The dogs bayed helplessly

At the mountain of fog.
The tall clouds unburdened
Into filthy manholes.
It rained and poured a flood.

In a quiet mind, there...

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