Law & Order
In these times of exceeding sexual criminality and hidden, abhorrent abuse, the poet yearns, nay PLEADS for a hero to step forth and administer not justice. Nay, no justice by todayβs standards. The people demand a hero of vengeance! Detective Elliot Stabler!!!
Open Letter
This one is depressing. My prescriptions got messed up and I ran out of my antidepressant. That pill was suppressing this poem, and Iβm going to go get my refill right now. I donβt like writing these. Theyβre not good, anyway.
The Elements of Music
I donβt know why. I didnβt even mean to write this. Nor do I find this βgood.β This is more like the sketch of a future poem. Honestly, I canβt wait to take down this page of poetry.
Randomly Got Mad at Nazis
This image is of white supremacist vandalism on the front of an ethnic cultural center in that historic, well-known center of southern racism in the United States: St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2021. Minnesota is in the Deep South, right?
This shit is everywhere. It has been. It will be. Unlessβ¦
TV is Getting So Good
This started as something completely different, and then I think I ended up challenging myself to rhyme something with βcycleβ. Then, to do that, I had to change the topic and everything else about the poem, and then I had to make up several words, and then I claimed to myself that stultify rhymes with lullaby, and thenβ¦
Latchkey Kids of Time
I donβt know what to say about this one. Let me know if you have any ideas for what to put here.
<YOUR MESSAGE HERE>
Death and Taxes
I wrote this one because I thought of the couplet at the end, and I wanted to put it somewhere, god dammit.
Semi-Iambic Pentameter, WHAT?!?!?
I didnβt really try on the iambs. I enjoy triplets too much, as evidenced by the title.