Long Visas Poems

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. 

"I'm going upstairs," Hubert tells Ruth as he hoists himself out...

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As October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………
I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.
So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion on milk.
I produce...

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When you find a marble in your hand or head
(And you will because it will be roundish)
Hurl it immediately at humans to get attention           ...

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It was an unusual trip that was planned,
stranger still that my Mother-in-law was the reason.
A wonderful woman who was liked by all who knew her,
kind, gentle, hard working, and grateful for the gift 
of reaching...

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Dragon loves his penguins! Oh that we know quite well.
So…Dragon ask for their own little, silver, fire retardant, suits, do tell!
Oh Lord A Mercy! The little penguins dress up sooo very cute, too!
But leave it...

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I think about human freedom
I search for human liberty
I get none in human life
Humans have never carried 
Freedom and liberty in bags

In mother’s womb
Surely I see no freedom, no liberty!
In the womb- world humans;	
have eyes...

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The steamy Havana night air became heavy through the broken-up streets of the old city where ancient Detroit monsters were on display like dinosaurs from some prehistoric era, forgotten, given up to the boundaries of...

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If I were the Antichrist,
I would wait and watch,
When God gets tired of humanity
He would unleash me, his scourge.

I would begin by encouraging 'peace'
After all I know all tongues,
I would ban all forms of currency,
Take...

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Never bake them in an oven
That would be wrong
Making babies should never be a mistake

Rub two sticks together in a rainforest
Use a flashlight under the cover of night
If you get lost use matches not rocks
Babies...

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Little Green People’s Work Is Never Done

Life calls on little green people, to work, to continue
As everyone else sleeps in
Hiding from the corporate comatose leader 
Normal people rise, at a later date, from beds dead...

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-VANQUISHED-
                            
Upcoming sun that must rise in the...

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*I admit we're putting on quite a carnival for the world to see.
putting our worst clown foot forward.
Fighting one another over rolls of toilet paper
scorching our foundation
juggling our humanity.
Because of an exception to the rule-a...

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I
There is a revelation in nature
How does a beast nurse it's future 
generation?
Be it a vulture, wild boar, or Tasmanian Devil
Who teaches nature to sit, hungry for a day, on eggs, 
As reptiles sndcserpents do,...

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Bernard is writing Esther: "I have a family, a nice shed,
I always take the lead and have never in life been lead.
In the mornings I walk Jess, at night I drink rum, eat bread
But when...

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Will ultimately acquire a resentful attitude. 
Adrift, things will be sought all through the house. 
The travel guide and short visas to Crouse 
My passport, birth certificate, and mood

The only thing that drew you away was sadness. 
This was...

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live they in the subtle hell, 
on earth the levels change by smell, 
protest the would be righteous,
 where murder doth incite us,
though the citadel has fell,
 you think yer doing well?
 yes hell is...

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With no arms and legs, pill escapes are hard
They all look the same inside their bottles 
Like prisoners shaved bald at executions             ...

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Oh How Then
The powers that be took us into this mess
And we as people decided to act
Yes that’s right we banged our pans and spoons
Screeching ENOUGH IS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
You there over there yes you...

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Run rhino run, just like cousin cheater
Cheat on them 
They are coming again ,now it’s against
Like brother lion fight back

Their stories are made, maiming your horn
They have been there in Bukavu and left it dry
They...

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Oh How Then
The powers that be took us into this mess
And we as people decided to act
Yes that’s right we banged our pans and spoons
Screeching ENOUGH IS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
You there over there yes you...

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T'es Ou?


That's all I heard for 10 minutes straight
one sautéed Brussels morning in the metro
with everyone, their brother, perhaps their dog
peeing on my leg, or at least, it felt that way,
sweat running down inside my...

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There’s things to see in foreign lands
just waiting for us all.
The Tahj Mahal and Pyramids,
some Canyons, Dams and Falls.

Around the world, from shore to shore,
between our ice capped poles
the things you’ll find are wondrous
and lovely...

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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...

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Cup Cake Insurrection

Evidence mounts as cup cakes bake in ovens
Camouflaged in chocolate brown 
Revolutions start this way they say
Secured, metallic ready in tin pans waiting 
375 degrees transformed
To something spongy to the touch
Perhaps we are...

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Sheep’s Work Is Never Done

Life calls after sheep in morning to continue
Everyone else sleeps in
Hiding from the corporate coma for awhile 
People rise, at a later date, from beds dead tired
Smiles crack on faces; lines...

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