Long Microwaves Poems

Identity Apples

iam a fat skeleton, resurrecting 
from the sad memories of dada 
and dark mysteries of aminism 
iam buganda 
i bleed hope 
i drip the honey of fortune 
makerere, think tank of africa 
i dance...

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This town, this Silk Road had no toll to pay
  yet from the east caravans again fill its
pharaonic marble and glass temples. Monolith

malls rise its clefts, eco-wilderness morph
  into multiplex cinemas; mini golf...

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Jack is learning so much at home, he’s bright and cheerful and never alone,

there’s always something good to do, like playing with bubbles or a trip to the zoo.

Experiments with water and soap, testing if...

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I’ve made a few mistakes in my life. I can say that with aplomb
I wore a blue brocade tux with a top hat and cane to my junior/senior prom.

I once let a beautician curl my...

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Time’s up 
mind’s plucked 
watch me cave in 
rhymes suck 
my luck 
hair’s wearing thin 
corrupt 
destruct 
stops me thinking 
clocks stuck 
bell struck 
sound silencing 

Now I told you the minds plucked 
first line...

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Technological Breakdown.
.
Has Hi-tech technology
Now gone too far 
That we seem lost without
In this hedonistic instant gratification
Obsessed  days
.
Or were we better without it yesterday
When life was simpler and less complicated
In so many different ways
.
Of course...

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[Written last year, or perhaps the year before
But youtube was awash with parodies in a
Similar vein. Unless I didn’t look properly, I
Haven’t posted it before... so here you go...]

      ...

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“Every year is a chess game. New Year is a new chess game! You make the right moves, you win the game!”
Mehmet Murat ildan


Questions of resolutions for new years day.
It's a comedic quest that's all...

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who are these people?
where did they come from?
they seem so primitive.
so, incapable.
primitive humans without a foundation of language I feel were smarter and more able 
then these people.
these years of technological advancement, and inventions, have...

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At 96 she looks at you, with a mischievous smile that shines
Her hair is well groomed and her eyes still twinkle
Time and the sun have lined her well loved face
But her mind is alert, and...

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It's those hot southern summer days filled with lots of outdoor work, sun, and humidity that I will never forget.  Although they are rather unforgettable but not at all memorable. Air conditioning did not...

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When we made a call it cost a thin dime
We had no paramedics or fancy defibrillators
We had no microwaves or food in a box
We had no trash-compactor or garbage disposal
We had no gas lawnmower or...

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My closets and garage overflowing with my stuff,
I couldn't afford to rent a storage unit because of the cost,
putting piles of our old clothes and shoes in various rooms,
one day I wanted to sweep and...

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Night time Ghosts 

Its here again the longest time, it seems hours on end, but they never do.
Sharing the darkest hours of night with night time ghosts like you
The daylight hours go so fast, there...

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The Great Plains


Vast expanse of land,
Virginal, pure, and yet shaped by man’s hands, 
A rich and lustrous corn carpet,
An open land with distant horizon
Where man’s green fields and nature’s blue sky meet

Cows and deer fearlessly...

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Hungry cry of waking baby				
challenging the staccato				
of small arms fire.
School bus honking
over the droning hum
of I-phone ear-buds.
Wood fire banked against
searing desert winds
rattling glassless windows.
Pop tart in microwaves,
nutritional nuance
of the overfed
undernourished.
Dogs barking in the distance,
squeaking well...

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I recall writing checks in my spidery crawl.
The TV then was a humming spaceship
with glowing innards that deep-scanned 
all who glued their flickering, bug-eyed minds to it;
it abducted whole families at a time.
That same television
materialized...

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Sitting in the parking lot
	in my truck just wondering
wondering what this day I’ll see
	my coworkers and what they’ll be

many today do costumes wear
	reflecting what they may not be
hidden desires running free
	given liberty on this day

a...

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I'm still here, for you
beat my fear, for you
all I did, for you
I'm still here

Fell on dark days 
now they're all I know
you came out of nowhere
like a miracle
broke me out of my stoney phase
you...

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There's this break room—
Where I work, of course—
That holds three microwaves,
one refrigerator, a stove,
and two vending machines.
All cannot be younger than
Five years at the earliest.
This break room is tiled
But rather dirty despite
Monthly scrubbing and mopping.
I...

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…spectral in the buzzing of it,
the fracturing of molecules,
splitting of sub-atoms,
snap-click of ozone,
particles of atmospheric implosion…

…and in the decimation of motes,
the microwaves of favour,
flavoured with limeade and salt,
decomposed tomato and crisp razor glass,
splat and drawl...

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A cat on a baking tray does not require a lid or a helmet. And driving very fast is good for a fish knife. Laughter omitting from wheeled floating spoons but powerful cutlery drawers can...

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Dreaming the dream of love in decay, 
  neurones aflame and raw; 
sifting psychic debris as night swallows day, 
  ragged and broke on the floor. 
Splintered chewed nails as they drag down...

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I’ve been transmitting
on the frequency we talked about—
the one braided with microwaves
and half-truths
about entangled minds
and sympathetic resonance.

I figured you’d catch the pulse
once the white noise parted,
once my kettle screamed
or the dog stared too long at...

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the ether is alive with oscillations
          pulsations and electric frequencies
              satellite and shortwave...

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