Tag: poem
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Definitely Getting In
We started early Gig’s in Marlay No sign of Jacob Names and numbers like a parley On paper in my parlour Scarlet to ring you so early How’s your mother? Grand sure, listen Have you got powder? Ten minutes, sound brudder I’m in me kitchen, yeah Gonna be a growler alri’. Think I’m seeing the…
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NewNightmare
Kids having nightmares at governments admitting involvement in assassination Not in our good nation; not our mothers and fathers; not our beloved freemasons What if Freddy Kreuger FK was Fitzgerald Kennedy Admit the assassination where there’s no peril for ‘em A sad tragedy on closer inspection reveals threads, threnodies of trinities Get you a bucket…
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Pilgrims Walking – VI
Tired from the road they sought our abode We are utterly smote, one ventures, coughing at fire smoke He chokes down sour wine, hands it over his hand to mine I say this weather will not clear for some time, let us pass time Some light, even a mote, even remote, must show before you…
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Wisdom of Nine Books Read
They had read but nine books between them, what their libraries had available Besides the Bible, a smattering of John Bunyan, a line or two from Donne Abundance of knowledge like a ring too small To learn or love when you already know it all Neither gall nor guile surprises the self-reliant His earth the…
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Never beg a bandit for water
Two thirsty nazis toads Sore from the open road They beg water with no oaths Leave them open throated Burn the slaughter Beyond enemy lines with no orders Nazi blood caked marauder I wore khaki and carried a king’s shilling Now I am hacking through gizzards, aroused when killing The scenes I choose to leave…