KATHE KRUSE STELLA DOLL, VERIFIES NO U-TURN Hitler Youth master tutors municipal college. A pantomime of liberalism outrages. Baader-Mienhoff deliver her flesh-and-blood vocation. Pogo stick with Luger, disinfects classroom. ~~~ BUCKAROO! TENSES Flags ripple. Argentina’s Consulate is imposing, pompous. Nail bomb serene in rear hooves anticipates kick. Prairie Fire counterfeit sightseeing. National anthem goes unsung. […]

Eric I’m sorry,  But how can I be honest  When you’ve made me so rich  By leaving forever? I think of you bald  And feeling sexy, almost dead  In Oaxaca, I think you knew  You were being killed as it happened.  What has it ever gotten us,  Acting brave, half-cans of Estrella  Lined up neatly […]

      Marigny, New Orleans… Me and my professor friend   walk along Mardi Gras colored houses, a bootlegger Could fire a shot through and it takes You back, when Stevedores unloaded ships That carried cargo from around the world But  robots could easily replace them,  just as a.i. could rewrite this poem in multiple  Languages, but […]

Brave Glares in the Midnight Air  Life takes guts.   So does taking yourself out.   I ain’t got that mettle.   Built for the rut,   And I got scores to settle.  ~~~ Notes of Harmonica Played on the Spirit  Chaos is just another term for life.   The music of our existence.   The tempo of our madness.   We play the groove of […]

MY DOG So many people with dogs in the park today, it makes me wonder what kind of dog I would have if I had a dog. I never had a dog. When I was five, I was chased by a dog. I think it was a bull terrier. It looked like the dog on […]

BECAUSE WE DON’T WALK ON RED ANYMORE A small skunk is dead in the intersection  of the busy road, intestines swirled in a tiny pile, a slash of vermilion stabbing through its stripes fluttering in the spring breeze  cars from one direction zooming over and past. I couldn’t begin our walk, watching car after car  […]

Sisyphus, Further Upstate Nothing new, nothing you haven’t discovered yet, only America, only I will make you sing it louder, will make you scream it, scream AMERICA!! like it’s the answer to a question you can’t imagine, like you’re hanging from a rope of used needles, hanging from a rope of spent time, and it’s […]