Long Melanoma Poems

The National Science Foundation outsources to Colleges, today's mental assassins to secretly 
censor you using "wisedex" 
among other things. 
"Wisedex" is
in the shadows of academia, 
a deep state melanoma
with digital mitochondria and an mRNA soul.

Mental...

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my presence was needed
the announcement echoed thru hospital halls
which meant the medical team assembled
but that kind of expertise
was not why i was called
my lot in this equation, a signature
i was in another room in a...

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Death,
An old friend, as old as life,
We met soon after my birth 
He liked to play games with me 
“Be ready,” he said. “I am coming for you.”
I waited, was all ready to go, 
no...

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Eileen was born 80 1/2 years ago
on the first day of winter on the ground a bit of snow
with a twinkle in her eyes and a healthy glow
having both outer and inner beauty to bestow,

Second...

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“i’m only happy when it rains,”
moans shirley manson when she’s backed by
butch vig & an orchestra of overdubbed
distorted guitars enhanced by sythensizers
a la trent reznor
the genius who is credited in garbage’s first album---
one doesn’t have...

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As the sun sets
A hot wind like this
Does not belong in downtown Lansing
But here it is
Speed-boating down the Grand River grinning and wearing Ray-Bans

My wife and I
We hold down our pouncing bouncing patio table
At the...

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In December 1951, I turned ten years old-- 
	Harry Truman was president of the United States, 
		The Korean Conflict raged on a faraway peninsula,  
			The Golden Gate Bridge closed due to high winds. 
	My...

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Now In Heaven



Here I have been sitting in my high-chair, Throwing food here, there and 
everywhere, And ended up getting a few things on me; My hands of course, 
frowning face and knee.



Mama looked mean...

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Working as a NY cop on three alternating shifts,
his wife at home with five little kids,
ranging in ages from 1 to 12,
his police boat up and down on the swells,

One week he'd have normal 8-4pm...

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That cancer has ravaged my family, it is true
My mom first with melanoma at age forty-two,
Bone cancer took my Uncle Cladie for a ride
Until the pain caused him to commit suicide,
My dad lost his battle...

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Green Tea


Oh what joy it seems to me
Drinking my early morning tea.

The healthiest beverage on the globe
Cures many diseases I've been told.

Lemon juice in hot tea cures and prevents cancer I hear.
Drink for three months,...

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(For JHL's 'Hauntings')


I tempt my fate with tree branches. Each and every night
I walk home from my bus stop as darkness drains the light.

I pass by St. John's Cemetery and shoot a wayward glance.
Ominous rows...

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wildflower meadow
as tall as a muntjac
cuckoo cuckooing
-
farmers haymaking
grasshoppers stridulating
don't touch a stinkbug
-
wood admiral glides
honeysuckle its host plant
humid the hot nights
-
warm is the river
fish rising leaping for flies
life seeking cool shade
-
inverted swimmers
water boatmen taking in air
cygnets...

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Fighting Cancer of the Skin
By Franklin Price
8/12/2015

Fighting cancer of the skin
for me is number one;
whether from the war in Vietnam,
genetics or the Sun.

Doesn't really matter
Operate to keep ahead:
basal , squamous carcinoma;
no  melanoma I am...

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Carcinoma, melanoma sick twins
Inside their innocuous hosts grin
For surface tension brings no chagrin
Another, common diagnosis will time lend
Healthy cell structures to amend
Immune systems with guile befriend
In state of denial, journey begins
Signs not to the human...

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she couldn’t get a tan that would make the grade round prom time &
so off to the cancer cocoons she went,
cooking herself crisp & 
as orange as barbecued chicken---
after the prom & all of the...

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If I had the power to change the world
I would make it blind to color, size, and race.
I would have people see each other’s spirits.

If we could see spirit instead of flesh 
We would be...

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