Sunday, June 6, 2021

In the End

My innuendos once so crisp
gradually began to slip...

Becoming so worn
and outside newly minted social norms
I became a social outcast...

Now wearing the label
sexist misogynist 
of a Boomer origin
the muzzle fitted snug
over these inappropriate lips..

Stripped of all sarcasm
by the very same forces
I use to mock and disparage
back when I was still relevant..

My dreams of a blue comedy Renaissance
now destined to perish with me




Monday, May 31, 2021

Detour Road

Those calamities
we bring
on ourselves
are the hardest knots to untie...

We have to unravel
not only threaded consequence
but also the stubborn core
of tightly wound ego
we arrogantly applied
when we let our emotions decide
the course of future events...

Now we need find
the required humility
to break down our deficiencies  
and extricate ourselves
from the morass we made...
   
Only then
once we have untangled
and the fix implemented
can we proceed 
to get back 
on the road to evolution








Saturday, May 29, 2021

Seek and Find

 

I finally found happiness
when I stopped running away
and faced the liberating truth
that there is no escaping mortality...

Had to drop the pointless denials
and desperate deflections...

This self confession
led to my acceptance
that our existence is but a maze
with only one funnel exit
that will find us all 
upon completion of the game



Sunday, May 23, 2021

Once Upon A Good Time

Pretty pink princess
with her poofy puffy dress
blowing in the glittery breeze...

Side saddle riding
her snow whiter unicorn
through strawberry fields
somewhere over the rainbow...

Rides past judgmental eyes
with nary a care in the world...

Deep inside her fairy tale bubble
that will one day go pop
and land her crashed ass in rehab



Sunday, May 16, 2021

Crash Dummy

Flying blind
as I am prone to do
when I get too cocky
about my invulnerability...

Post crash...

I curse the gods of inevitability
for not properly warning me
that extreme arrogance
begets negative consequence



Saturday, May 15, 2021

On The Vine

We are all in stock
for a limited time only...

So don't ignore
the opportunity to secure
this deal of a lifetime...

Sign up for happiness



Sunday, May 9, 2021

Knot Today

We consume mass quantities
but never savor the flavor...

No time for reflection
inside our microwave lives...

Prisoners of fate...

We can no longer self regulate...

Our story gets revealed 
at it's own unstable pace...

Spinning threads
tangled in the knotted tapestry
of frayed human history



Saturday, May 8, 2021

Ode To Have Nots

My self esteem
(for what it's worth)
will never be driven visually...

I don't have the genes...

Nor the discipline...

Nor the resources...

Or even at this point
the inclination
to be conventionally
attractive physically...

My self esteem
(for what it's worth)
is generated internally...

So deal with it bitches

Or not...

If you have not figured out by now
I am not here to appeal to you
or your snobby judgmental crew
of petty little gossip hounds

What a liberating feeling
not worrying about being appealing
to anyone but yourself...

Or not...

HA...HA...HA...



 



Sunday, May 2, 2021

Old Truths

The human equation...

Scrawled on the wall
in a gibberish formula
only the ghosts who wrote it
can comprehend...

Time has moved on...

As have the spirits of the past...
  
So we must commit today
to whitewash current myths
long ago outmoded
and recycle our thought process
all over again
in order to make sense
of this perplexing paradigm
that needs to be revisited



Sunday, April 25, 2021

Morning Necessities

Morning lung excavation
as the night's stagnant phlegm secretions
get power coughed up the chute
into manageable spit clumps
for easy evacuation...

The pools stubbornly hanging on
from the depths of A.M. congestion
are the last to be cleared...

Once the passageways
are opened up fully
and oxygen intake
is finally uninhibited
we can proceed
to perform
other necessary
wakeup bodily
emptying activities...

Contrary to popular myth...

Life ain't all glamour and glitz





 
 




Saturday, April 24, 2021

Writer's Crock

If I be a writer
that nobody reads
do the words I spew
truly get through?

So why should I really care
if my wayward craft goes nowhere?

I'm just slaying time
trying to make rhymes
of minimal consequence
to this impervious Universe



Sunday, April 18, 2021

Dream Team

The best distractions
are pliable commodities...

The stuff of impractical fantasies
that release us from the clutches
of our monstrous realities...

Even if only temporarily...

The best distractions
are the ones we can share...

For they can take us anywhere...

All the way 
to these dreams
we Earth bound beings
can craft together





Sunday, April 11, 2021

Peace In Our Minds

Let's not debate
the color of the sky
or quibble about
the quantity of fish in the sea...

Don't wanna fight anymore
over topics totally lacking in relevance
to the challenges in life we face daily...
 
Our nonsensical arguments
have turned us into
social media caricatures
creating nothing but useless friction
that serves as contentious entertainment
for the bored Cyberverse masses



Saturday, April 10, 2021

Hands On

Let's take a break
from our self centered race...

Take off those blinders
that serve to narrow our view
and take in the beauty
that exists on the periphery...

The glorious panorama of ALL humanity
with ALL the potential possibilities...

Now see the frayed edges of our quilt...

Seek out and savor every imperfection...

Find those souls in need of a boost...

Kindness provided so very easily
if we access our own memories
when we were feeling lonely
and in desperate need
of basic human inclusion



Sunday, March 28, 2021

Crucifix On Wheels

Why must sin always be
so frickin subjective
and hopelessly time sensitive?

Such is the fickle nature
of modern morality...

There just ain't no consistency...

Which only adds to the anxiety
of trying to live saintly
in the 21st Century 








Sunday, March 21, 2021

Number One

Knots in my hair
and I don't care
cause I ain't going nowhere...

Not doing a Zoom
or Facetime any time soon...

I am retired from being seen...

No more issues with self esteem...

On this island where I be King



Sunday, March 14, 2021

Lingering Pandemic

Been existing in our escape pods so long...

Temporary has become the norm...

Hard to say once this storm dissipates 
if we'll ever be able to cleanly escape
and find our way back to our displaced lives..

One thing everyone deep down knows...

Things will never be the same



Saturday, March 13, 2021

Transition Condition

This sure feels like transition
though I'm not quite certain
exactly from whence we came
and have even less of a clue
of the destination we be going to



Saturday, March 6, 2021

The Good Fight

We came to fight injustice...

Armed only with righteous indignation
and our morally pure intentions
into the breach we charged
but the scope of enemy prejudices
were far too pervasive
to be easily contained or restrained...

So we had to recalibrate our mission
and limit our battle to
 local hatreds
that fell within the narrow confines
of our leveraged sphere of influence



Saturday, February 27, 2021

All The World...

Everything you view
on display today
is part of the act...

So you gotta realize
what you see
may or not be
what you get...

Tis all a staged event...

A daily tour de force
for the comforting benefit
of historical conformity...

Belief in today's version of reality
is totally optional of course



Sunday, February 21, 2021

Nuclear Cherry Bombs

Peeps really need to learn
how to properly debate
with rational discretion…

When I drop a comparative simile
please don’t take the connection literally…

Treating the two subjects equally
in relative severity…

For example…

“Cancel Culture is like Nazi speech suppression”
does not mean these beasts are one and the same

They just share a common trait…

Though in differing degrees…

So you can lose the false equivalency…



Saturday, February 20, 2021

Wrecked By Text

I do miss nuance...

Gone are telling inflections...

The majesty of subtlety
has become a collateral casualty
of our text obsessed society...

For there no longer exists
lines to read between
on this passive flat screen
that sucks out all emotions
from human conversations



Sunday, February 14, 2021

Birthday Clocking

From it's perch high
on the edge of eternity
Time watches over
Circus Humanity
as the Calendar of Forever
regulates the great clock in the sky
tracking the morsels of minutes
duly allocated to we Earthly inhabitants...

So it rolls for you and I
riding our personal timelines
now forever intertwined...

How thankful am I
for that glorious day
you joined this world
and were put on the clock...

Cause now we're perfectly aligned...

Delightfully synchronized...

Tick...Tock...Tick...Tock

A rhythmic song in two part harmony...

A mutually reliant melody...

One empty without the other...

Am I the tick or the tock?

I forgot...

Anyway....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!  







 


 


Saturday, February 13, 2021

The Search For Muteness

I remain
hopelessly deranged...

Thoughts scream unrestrained...

A madness symphony
with multiple conductors
tripping from different pages
on collapsing stages...

Sleep offers zero relief
from this damn cacophony...

There really seems to be
no internal volume control for me...

Maybe I'll grow deaf
to this insanity some day...

Hopefully 




Saturday, January 30, 2021

Rage Junkies

Peeps be so easily outraged these days...

Seems almost like they wanna be...

Poking through news of the day
for form fitting anger nuggets
to post on social media sites...

Where they bond with other rage junkies...
in an orgy of explosive text invectives
directed at a common enemy
who in turn will counter rant

An endless cycle of negativity

One would think
it would be played out by now









Saturday, January 23, 2021

Down The Chute

Now that we've muzzled the top mutt
and all his yapping lap dog friends
I wonder where the suppression ends?

Who decides when the mute curtain drops?

Is censorship now a committee activity
or does it fall to faceless technocrats?

Welcome to the slippery slope...



Sunday, January 17, 2021

Fill in the Blankety Blank

People query me occasionally
(not really as I have no peeps)
if my content poetry
pertaining to sexual
and chemical debauchery
is autobiographical...

Truth by told
these literary exploits are poetic flights
of unrestrained fictional fantasy...

Scribed in the first person sense
purely for dramatic effect 
by this bland man self sentenced
to a lifetime of monotony

Poetry provides me a reprieve
and an escape trip
from a flat line life
temporary as it may be 






Saturday, January 16, 2021

Read All About Me


What's more depressing
than drinking alone
when your cup goes dry
and all you can do is cry
over 
your life deprived
as the night
yawns indifferently
to your pathetic plight?

Seriously, what can be sadder?

I know!!!

Posting online about it to strangers





Sunday, January 10, 2021

Loose Consequence

Tripping over the guilt
that could not be off loaded

A slow erosion of the soul

Soon to be a psychosis
beyond our feeble control

Actions have consequence

Actions have consequence

When will we ever learn?



Pointy Headed Man

 

The strict 

and powerful

Bishop of Order 


Worships at

the alter of

Rigid Structure


Prays from

the Book of Absolute Static


Preaches ye olde world order

to the well funded top enders


While out 

in the unscrubbed streets

the wild dogs are a howling


Weary of fighting

over the scraps

of the past... 


Oh my fellow riff raff

the times they are a changing fast


Social media outlets

spewing discontent

in all directions


Transmitting history as it happens


Real time events

that can no longer

be spun properly

by old school media


Corporate lap dogs no longer able

to compartmentalize the commotion

or marginalize the collective pain 


Walls that have stood for centuries

come tumbling

down


Overwhelmed

by the unstoppable frustrations

finally unleashed


The Bishop of

Crumbling Order

desperately tries to crush

rampant dissent by pious decree


Checkmate!!


As the forces of today

finally triumph

over weary yesterdays


The bitter cleric

of course will

never relent


Wraps himself

in his tattered banner


Ranting

to his fellow ghosts

about the good old days

and their lost domination


He thrusts his tarnished staff

that once symbolized power

into the smudged mirror


Shattering the illusion forever

that rigid institutions

can permanently hold dominion

over an enlightened population