Out

Everyone I thought I could never die died
I am next I suppose
In this long line of stars leaking gas fading out
But the sheiks fill their tanks from their pumps of unlimited supply
And a coming sunrise is rumored
As the prospering vile rule the night

School

What did I learn today

About the world and forward progress?

The means that guide the new age

Chopping enemies heads off

Blowing selves up

Nuclear warheads

Work camps

For those

Who don’t learn their lessons well

At school

Dallas Afternoon 

Orpheus cried
And the satyrs all fell
That day when the sky
Went black 

A myth with no moral
A town with no compass
And now there is no
Turning back

The slate is now blank
A new morning has dawned
Without a Rousseau
Or a Locke

Time claps its hands
And the heroes disband
But forever it stands
One o’clock

KKK

Who goes there?

In the night with a sheet

Hiding blood in the brain

On the cross

On the hood

In the street?

Titanic



Thing of beauty yes you are
But what is beauty anyway
Here to be tossed on the sea and disavowed by man
Because beauty surely cannot go away with him
On the long descent down
To the sterling abyss
In the deep of the ocean
Lies a home on the floor
Where you cry

Retrospect

Glittering and almost there
Is retrospect
I can feel the wave and smell your hair
In retrospect
So close and yet it never bends
This time of mine that never ends
So much I could have done with you
But my world has been cleft in two
In retrospect

Fast Food

Some cow somewhere

Maybe Nebraska, maybe Oklahoma

Suffered savagely so I could be satisfied

A slice of him inside me

So neatly arranged on some rack he was

Valuable innards lined up like jewels,

Miscellaneous organs like eyes discarded

And I unconsciously join the culture of deadness

Dead as the cow, dead as the blade,

Dead as a link on a chain

Dead as the single-file consumers of deadness

Growing more plastic, convenient, and deader

Every day with every real meal deal that goes down