The 21st Century
(a) time – Aug 6, 2016 – “fading / dripping / …emotions slide”
A 3rd-Rate Philip Marlowe – Sept 19, 2019 – “She walked up to me at the smoke-filled bar”
A Cricket’s Cry – Aug, 2020 – “the cry of a cricket / pierces the stillness / of the night”
A Pebble Shines – Feb 12, 2021 – “a pebble shines in the distance / beyond immediate grasp”
A Slight Vulnerability – Aug, 2017 – “silent within shadows / lurking in corners”
A Song of Peace – Mar, 2022 – “gondolas float / down / rippling rivers”
Always To Dream – Mar 27, 2020 – “creating illusions / a front for dark secrets”
Anger Within – Mar 6, 2022 – “I hate the anger residing within my inner cage”
Blank Eyes – Aug 23, 2018 – “put down that crack pipe / the cop tells Blank Eyes”
Bottomless Pit of Floating Fish – Jun 22, 2021 – “I wish colours were real…”
Breathe – Aug, 2020 – “Slow! …down / breathe”
Climbing Mountains – Feb 19, 2021 – “climbing mountains / always climbing mountains”
Crystal Meth Lovers Float Downstream – Sept 2 & 3, 2017 – “…she’s floating in the cloud of her dreams”
Daily Death Dance – Nov, 2017 – “crystal ball gazing / memories dance / sway frantically”
Darkness Ahead, The – Jul, 2021 – “fading light / merges into the darkness ahead”
Dead Don’t Celebrate, The – Jan 2021 – “The dead don’t celebrate / superficial victories”
Discipline of Dying Ghosts, The – Apr, 2019 – “ghosts stir, a child recoils”
Doobie Girl – Jul 2021 – “I roll 6 joints & watch reruns of The Office”
Elusive Truth of Dreams – Mar, 2021 – “deceptive deceivers at the door”
Exist – Oct 26, 2016 – “feed from energy / nourish creativity”
Fleeting Recollections – Jun 1, 2018 – “I dreamt / you were here / not there”
Fucking Bus – May, 2021 – “the bus is late / I’m out of time”
Goddess – May, 2020 – “the goddess bathes in her private stream /”
Gurus of the Road – Dec 18, 2005 – “ice immerses the earth in a frozen sheet of glass”
Hope? (2020) – Dec 13, 2020 – “I feel love no more, emptiness, a void”
Horror of Modern Day Living, The – Aug, 2011 – “day after day the possibility of escape dwindles”
Horse & Buggy Show – Mar 20, 2020 – “I drew a picture / of a horse & buggy”
How R U? She Asked – Dec 2, 2020 – “I replied: ‘That’s a complex question.'”
I Breathe – Aug, 2020 – “despairing, fading / I move / I breathe”
If I Lost My Memory – Mar, 2020 – “If I lost my memory / I would be free”
In Memoriam – Jul 7, 2019 – “fade into the ether / disappear / …dignified…”
Invisible Men – Apr 29, 2020 – “invisible men / speak in unison…”
Is That You Macduff? – Dec, 2019 – “your creaky steps creep closer to my chamber door”
It’s A Nice Day To Die, She Said – Dec 18, 2020 – “the sun was setting in a peculiar way”
Kafka Dreams – July, 2019 – “dark thoughts & Kafka dreams”
Melting Ice – Mar 3, 2020 – “melting ice / dripping / lonely thoughts”
Much Too Late – Jan 11, 2021 – “gracious ladies dance with skeletons outside my window”
New Pen New Notebook – Jul 26, 2017 – “I wait…wait for inspiration…wait for the flow”
Note on the Door – Oct 23, 2019 – “There’s a note on the door / … / I wrote it during a dream”
Old Ladies, The – May, 2020 – “are they listening to me? / are they listening?”
One of Those Days – Mar 28, 2020 – “the phone rings / i shriek / my heart skips a beat”
Poet’s Dilemma, The – Feb 21, 2021 – “brilliant, insightful, penetrating words”
Rage – Aug, 2020 – “rage / arising from ashes / overwhelming / intense”
Real Fucked Up – Jun 15, 2018 – “the door is locked / the phone muted”
Red Skelton Crying – Feb 11, 2021 – “let the tears return to the clowns”
River Deep, The – 2008 – “I sought respite / from the dark thoughts / stealing my peace”
Room, The – Aug 7, 2017 – “all
Shine – Aug 28, 2016 – “searching… / for that elusive special transcendent / shine”
Silence – July, 2017 – “silence / the elusive god / dissipates into vapour”
Soma Induced Hallucinations – July, 2015 – ” Purple Disneyland characters / dance maniacally on top of battered heads”
Spider’s Web, The – Jan 8, 2011 – “a smeared spider smiled”
Strategic Planning – Apr 12, 2020 – “do this / do that / by this date”
Time’s Vapours – July 26, 2018 – “infinite / time’s vapours / vanish / into the mists of history.”
Tomorrow – Oct 23, 2018 – “tomorrow / I will pursue my dreams”
Vacuous – Feb 21, 2019 – “existence, a shell / armies endless mindless emotionless”
Walls – Apr 6, 2020 – “a prisoner behind bars / a hostage / in my home”
The 20th Century
A Song of Heartache – 1980 – “…the burning hot rays could not melt the ice”
Distant – 1992 – “I don’t know what’s wrong with Harv…he’s so…distant”
Flakes – mid-late 1980’s – “snow falls on the
Fly, The – 1996 – “there’s a fly / buzzing around / the room”
Freedom for the Butterfly – late 1980’s – “you’ve gone and left me / staring at the clock”
Hippie in a Laundromat – 1987 – “…shouting: peace to shirts! peace to pants!…”
Human Rat – 1982 – “nothing to do, nowhere to go, unemployed…”
I Attract Weirdos at the Festival of Friends – 1983 – “Walking through the park / staring at Mother Nature’s art…”
I Reach for a Rock – 1997 – “I reach for a rock / to keep / from drowning…”
I Reject the Words – 1991 – “I reject the words / of despair, ennui / apathy…”
I Steal Poetry – 1986 – “I stole a woman’s poetry and ran through the streets…”
I’m Amazing – 1986 – “people are so arrogant / except for me…”
Imaginary Death – 1990 – “You were screaming at an imaginary friend”
Imperfect Nihilist, The – 1992 – “if I could scream with meaning / a sound of fury.”
In the Pit of My Gut –
Laugh, The – 1989 – “the laugh / always at the ready…”
Melted Chocolate Days – 1985 – “She sets the table / methodically, slowly”
Monday Night Isolation – 1986 – “It’s a Monday night / and there’s nothing to do”
She Doesn’t Bring Me Flowers – mid 1980’s – “drunk and disgusting / I sing out of key”
Some People Are Assholes – 1986 – “Some people don’t know / when to shut their fucking mouths”
This Isn’t Sarcasm – 1986 – “all the writers bitched and complained”
Tick Tock – 1990 – “the day is dragging / like molasses / on the tip of your tongue.”