Long Shellacking Poems

Wait a minute, is it already Christmas again
Seems I just took down the lights and the tree
Is there no rest for the downtrodden and weary
This season sometimes takes the Merry Gentleman out of me

So I...

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Wait a minute, is it already Christmas again
Seems I just took down the lights and the tree
Is there no rest for the downtrodden and weary
This season sometimes takes the Merry Gentleman out of me

So I...

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In the visiting room evening's ebony is shellacking everything.
He sits across from me at the sable-shaded table, in shades,
pours black coffee pungent as the Gauloises he smokes,
his sun-starved skin bone-white but brooding black light,
an abandoned...

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It is hot out here 
Don't tell me about a sweater
I think the sun is broken
Walking down the same asphalt sidewalks

Still the same faults as summers ago
Sunny silken shine to the sheen 
Sleek and shellacking...

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sort of did stammer
on Trump Train we did clammer
him in head with hammer

my hair had been wet
one more vaccine I must get
then the quota will be met

give me some more skin
then saw Trump taking a...

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   Those who hate him 
     are on the attack
   That vile, vulgar specimen
     Donald J. Trump is back

   Don't look...

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TIME TO DISCARD BAGGAGE

WOW! she took a shellacking
from the words that grown girl spoke
after clearing up the air
loving relationship hope.

Didn’t like all the things she heard 
tho had right to speak her mind
pray after the...

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Trite foot soldier status lacking
Pedigree earned by under stress not cracking
Anonymous ward of the state with little backing
Nameless face sent into the infernal abyss hacking
On unstated mission sent packing
In an unknown, unfamiliar field bivouacing
An amorphous,...

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You've lost some hair and maybe put on a few pounds
and perhaps you're not so spry anymore.
                  ...

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