Long Undercut Poems

It was said by pilgrim sons next to the Boston Harbor,
That to take tax without redress was action of dishonor.
And so a team of farmers went and built themselves an army,
To drive the redcoats off...

Read More

As the rooster crows:   

A look in the pool mirrored  a perfect mop
At times of frizzy hair or defiant shaggy tresses
Ohhh the satisfaction at the sight 
And yabba, dabba, doo!! echoed loud...

Read More

Johnny England

So who allowed the foreign grey
to drive the British red away?
While running freely up our trees
they eat the food and spread disease.

While further north it’s worse than that,
extinction for the dear wild-cat.
Moggies of a...

Read More

As the rooster crows:
 
A look in the pool mirrored a perfect mop
At times of frizzy hair or defiant shaggy tresses
Ohhh the satisfaction at the sight 
And yabba, dabba, doo!! echoed loud and clear
Triumphant male...

Read More

Eroded,
undercut,
sagging for years beneath the weight
of a dead sycamore,
the bank gave way
when the lake was closed
and the dams opened up
during the winter overflow,
leaving the tree offshore,
hunkered down in the water,
half submerged,
its white branches groping the...

Read More

A hippopotamus in a tree is never the same as a forty foot sunbathing prawn with sunglasses. For in the eyes of the cool breeze not all can be delivered as speedily as a fish...

Read More

When the veil is pulled away subject exposed story 
what motivation drives these blind merchants 
let's lay it out clearly from waters of your soul tabled 
evidence points to an unstable world circus painting creeping...

Read More

I look out my window in Medford Oregon
at the unnaturally dark smoke-filled skies

Seems almost like the end of the world
Out here in the smoke-filled skies 
Of the west 

And realize that that the entire west...

Read More

The realization is that
both parties want to maintain power
at the expense of "we the people".
That's why they rarely work together
at every turn they undercut the other
manipulate "the pay to play' media.
Both parties fan the flames...

Read More

Scabs in Australian history
The Labor Party came from the early Shearers strike, 1900s,
 where Unions fought for and got fair wages for the workers.
Later in the 1950s the Shearers had trouble with SCABS.
The Australian National...

Read More

Integrity

I suppose you think it’s all worthwhile,
To crawl to the rich, if that’s your style,
To swing your vote, left, right and center,
On a whim, just hit enter.
Just a touch of bile, don’t bleat.

If you were...

Read More

You can hear the resentment in my voice 
I don't wanna be mad, but I don't have a choice
I don't have thin skin – I been rubbed raw
Blessed are the meek and the sons-in-law

All that...

Read More

Cow Palace, on the Tucson-Nogales Highway,
famous for Hollywood stars like John Wayne.
At first, the sunset tipped its halo light, in my way,
as I tried to get a digital photograph in vain.

My Aunt drove closer, but...

Read More

Contract

In a little town away out west ,
the Contract was out,
 the thunderboxes best,
Tommy Bumble offered 20 cents a tin,
To take the human manure in,
With the contract he was blest,

Tommy Tartar was in haste,
He offered...

Read More

Undercut and overwhelmed with once in a lifetime feelings
each death totally new, unlike any other, not even halfway 
a blade of hurt cut deep into my chest like a channel 
blue blood instantly changes red,...

Read More

Cheat 
I could cheat but it is wrong,
To rob your brother of his song,
To undercut his wages, worse,
To bring on self the awful curse,
But you knew it all along.

Power of thought can win a game,
But...

Read More

Oh, why don't cats like bananas,
Life would be so much simpler if we could get our cat to eat bananas.

She would not eat them on toast,
She would not touch them hidden in a roast.
We even...

Read More

II.
A politician just said to her crowd
what need have we for a border?
It’s a good thing to help poor folks in need,
we should let them all come over.
Even thought cartels control who gets through,
and subject...

Read More

Choices
Choices made here at your door,
The super rich want your vote sure,
They will undercut your wage’s till,
Overseas workers cheap, do fill their bill,
No morality here in sight.

Greed is in your choice to act,
Support the greedy...

Read More

My life is a sink
Yours is the toilet
We both wash we both throw away 
Nothing is rejected
You are porcelain
And your skin is hard
As hard as my eyes
Which are the faucet
And metal like the drain
Which is...

Read More

~ Sing to the melody of 'My Way' ~

     For what is a man, what has he got?
       If not Ukraine, what has he wrought?

...

Read More