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POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I'm just a cowboy. I've got some stories to tell and some scores to settle.
Fog, Mist and Rain
Summer
AC pumping
Cloudy skies
Just the way I like it
Should I surrender to you
Or you to me
It's raining now
Collective salvation
AC pumping
Cloudy skies
Just the way I like it
Should I surrender to you
Or you to me
It's raining now
Collective salvation
830 reads
8 Comments
Literary and a Cup of Tea
We'll meet for tea
Not coffee
Tea is literary
Perhaps some pastries
Something you eat slowly with a fork
Exchanging notebooks of writing
Pen and paper
Old school
Love begins this way
Fragments that become whole
We're on the perimeter of something
Perhaps bigger than ourselves
Collaboration and black tea
The cafe of beginning
Not coffee
Tea is literary
Perhaps some pastries
Something you eat slowly with a fork
Exchanging notebooks of writing
Pen and paper
Old school
Love begins this way
Fragments that become whole
We're on the perimeter of something
Perhaps bigger than ourselves
Collaboration and black tea
The cafe of beginning
735 reads
21 Comments
From the Literary to the Profane ( Paying Homage to Lou Reed )
Remember those years in the tiny walk up
You were writing erotica hoping to get discovered
I was working on my doctorate in sin
Doing night work at that porn theater in Times Square
That was dingy NYC
Long before organic
When Holly was working the Lincoln Tunnel entrance
You could get a quick suck for five bucks
Nobody cared if she had too many teeth
or if she was really a she
Life was less complicated back then
Holly bought mouthwash in industrial quantities
Hygiene on the fly still important
A woman still needs...
You were writing erotica hoping to get discovered
I was working on my doctorate in sin
Doing night work at that porn theater in Times Square
That was dingy NYC
Long before organic
When Holly was working the Lincoln Tunnel entrance
You could get a quick suck for five bucks
Nobody cared if she had too many teeth
or if she was really a she
Life was less complicated back then
Holly bought mouthwash in industrial quantities
Hygiene on the fly still important
A woman still needs...
926 reads
18 Comments
Intimate Relationship with my Printer
I've never had good tech relationships with printers
Can't say it's a conspiracy but you never know
Recently I bought one at the big box store
This soldier is treating me right
A little hard to program, it's a one of those multitask jobs
I gotta tell you though, once set up this babe is making me smile
I actually look forward to doing mundane scans, faxes and printing
She's taking care me in an intimate way
It might even be love
Can't figure out how to hold hands with her
Maybe just feed her some high quality paper
I don't...
Can't say it's a conspiracy but you never know
Recently I bought one at the big box store
This soldier is treating me right
A little hard to program, it's a one of those multitask jobs
I gotta tell you though, once set up this babe is making me smile
I actually look forward to doing mundane scans, faxes and printing
She's taking care me in an intimate way
It might even be love
Can't figure out how to hold hands with her
Maybe just feed her some high quality paper
I don't...
622 reads
4 Comments
Loner
I'll always be alone
Even in good company
The best days are a float
Weaving in and out of people traffic
I need dialog and can be open
Yet writing verse is my voice
Somber and reflective at twilight
Quiet and ominous at dusk
Keep the chemicals away from me
I've danced and twisted fate
Piecing myself back together again
Going it alone
All I know
Even in good company
The best days are a float
Weaving in and out of people traffic
I need dialog and can be open
Yet writing verse is my voice
Somber and reflective at twilight
Quiet and ominous at dusk
Keep the chemicals away from me
I've danced and twisted fate
Piecing myself back together again
Going it alone
All I know
820 reads
14 Comments
Nether World
We sex text
Email for old school
We'll never meet in person
It's perfect
Email for old school
We'll never meet in person
It's perfect
839 reads
6 Comments
The River Calls Me
Solemn
Reflection
The river calls
I go
Few places in this urban quagmire
Can match the extreme quiet
I'll take you there
If you enjoy silence
Rest your head on my shoulder
Gaze
Reflection
The river calls
I go
Few places in this urban quagmire
Can match the extreme quiet
I'll take you there
If you enjoy silence
Rest your head on my shoulder
Gaze
605 reads
0 Comments
Apart
We're never apart
She left last night
Late flight
A sister in need of help
Texts from the airport
4am
Tells me bomb sniffing dogs
are working the baggage claim
I didn't use the AC last night
Cool summer night
Unusual in July
A solemn quiet hangs in the balance
Compassion needed
She left in the cover of darkness
Miss her
She left last night
Late flight
A sister in need of help
Texts from the airport
4am
Tells me bomb sniffing dogs
are working the baggage claim
I didn't use the AC last night
Cool summer night
Unusual in July
A solemn quiet hangs in the balance
Compassion needed
She left in the cover of darkness
Miss her
643 reads
0 Comments
Sugar Doesn't Make Me Sweet
Manhatten
New York City
It's not a Zen zone
It's a money machine
ATM life
You gotta make a lot of it
Just to stay average
Yet there is a beauty in that
It's a flesh on flesh town
Inter mingle of the masses
Nobody knows who's got what
The gardners work on rooftops
My lawn is never brown
Because there is no grass
Everyone smokes pot though
It wafts into your head space
Skunking every corner
I don't do drugs
I'm trying to give up drinking
Sugar doesn't make me sweet
Frozen red...
New York City
It's not a Zen zone
It's a money machine
ATM life
You gotta make a lot of it
Just to stay average
Yet there is a beauty in that
It's a flesh on flesh town
Inter mingle of the masses
Nobody knows who's got what
The gardners work on rooftops
My lawn is never brown
Because there is no grass
Everyone smokes pot though
It wafts into your head space
Skunking every corner
I don't do drugs
I'm trying to give up drinking
Sugar doesn't make me sweet
Frozen red...
592 reads
0 Comments
Sugar
Evil wrapped in sweetness
We never had fruit for dessert
It was ice cream or the highway
Making amends
It's hard
Addiction has many faces
Choose your poison
Sugar is too easy
Legal suicide
Seedless red grapes for this cowboy
New mantra
We never had fruit for dessert
It was ice cream or the highway
Making amends
It's hard
Addiction has many faces
Choose your poison
Sugar is too easy
Legal suicide
Seedless red grapes for this cowboy
New mantra
608 reads
16 Comments
Summer
On the veranda
Two drinks
Waiting for us
Sip slowly
Make it last
Two drinks
Waiting for us
Sip slowly
Make it last
603 reads
16 Comments
Direct
I don't like you
I never did
Honesty is everything
Go fuck yourself
I never did
Honesty is everything
Go fuck yourself
633 reads
14 Comments
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