They invited some older folks to watch a war.
We sat uncomfortably on slat, wooden seats.
The noise was bearable off in the distance,
But a smell of body parts and putrid ammo,
Wrapping around us like unwanted caresses. Read on…
Everyday
Year after year
Generation after generation
The cows
Walk up the ramp
And through the swinging doors. Read on…
The atheist agnostic mystic
free-thinker fundamentalist Episcopalian
heretic Buddhist fire-
eyed Muslim ritual-incensed Catholic Read on…
Must sins be cleansed?
First, by apostolic decree
then by nailing men to trees.
Read on…
They tell me their secrets,
they feed me their sins;
they come seeking solace
and the assurance that they
are not beyond redemption. Read on…
Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites.
–Vergil, Eclogues
FIRST SHEPHERD:
We meet again upon this hill
but now we climb it with a will,
when only last time, when we met,
our breath was easier to get. Read on…
People like him never belong.
Like the gargantuan, elephantine,
gothic chick, that no one is asking
to the prom, he spends his nights alone, Read on…
“Give me Liberty or give me Death!”
Reads the bumper sticker on Bobby’s f-250.
Ironically, as he drives to work at 6:30 am
he is oblivious to his own indentured servitude. Read on…
and still the wars rage on
and still the dying mock
the love of god Read on…
if i was a superhero
i would be called the originator
i would defend the world against
pseudo-science and plagiarism Read on…