Libya, Libya, Libya, Libya, Libya Libya, Libya,Libya! We have already forgotten how To spell Moammar Gadhafi’s last name The other day on CNBC I saw it on the screen All in capital letters Kaddafy With a K-A-D-D-A-F-Y Why, I don’t know, It certainly wasn’t the right spelling But very humorous really Because Kaddafy Makes him …
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Mar 07
No Coffee
When the alarm blasts me awake I have to unlace my work boots to get ready for work And there is no coffee Six goddamn years I don’t see the sun til I have already broken a sweat til I have already ate a cold lunch of cold leftovers or worse At least five days …
Mar 04
End-Times
that red bloodshot eye, they say, could be from almost anything, maybe stress or cancer or certain death or just the dust kicked up from humanity’s death march to a great silent end-times regardless, this, tonight, is not the end-times just a ‘shut the door and bury your life’ kind of night, where the faintest …
Mar 01
The Plague of the Politically Correct
All I can offer is, they’re easily pissed off, to paraphrase Disney, “Six out of seven midgets agree.” –Bill Gainer
Feb 27
God Bless America
Memorial Day. Hancock’s motley wobbles down Main Street, a small-town awkward parade Norman Rockwell would have admired. Veterans bulge from their uniforms. Boy Scouts lack matching pants and shirts. Girl Scouts giggle and break ranks to greet their friends in the crowd. We watch from the café and wonder how the war dead will respond …
Feb 24
Ocean Beach Mind Murder
There is this force… Golden vipers Blooming into Poinsettas and growing Into illustrious orchids. My knees freeze over At the thought, Staring down the sinkkole of the universe Which is a color I can’t describe. Losing sight of it all, Standing at the urinal, Below the Lifeguard tower, 4 times, each taking 20 minutes to …
Feb 21
If you’ve ever…
Relied on the possibility of hangover induced telepathy Left your house in the morning and thought God damn it, I should have made an omelet Sipped calamity through a straw and become indifferent to evil Stood next to a well-dressed Wall Street Standard and chanted ruin Broken a name down to its parts such as …
Feb 18
Cold Coffee
Thermos half empty, coffee cold, no change for a refill, gave it all to the beggar, the guy at the Colfax off ramp, with the sign, “Vet, will work,” but he never does. I know, drugs and alcohol – it wasn’t that long ago I might’ve put the money there myself – it’s okay. I …
Feb 12
cocksuckers of the world unite and meet at my place
somewhere there’s some guy who is always right somewhere there’s some guy who is always good somewhere there’s some guy walking around with a parrot on his shoulder with bird shit all over his shirt somewhere there’s some guy who has just cut off his finger somewhere there’s some guy getting a blow job somewhere …