RKS Poetry Anthology: “Set the alarm”

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Set the alarm

Agonizing daybreak

Punch your timecard in the slot of mockery

Distant from the Club Med

Packaged release

Can be cached

When the rat trap salesman and the countess

Frolic in the bathtubs of seedy motels

 While fantasy hawkers crouch behind the armchair teasing pulsating veins

Praise aortas!

Alas it beats

Arduously battling nagging multitudes of cigarettes and

Imaginary confrontations

The ticking of nuclear warhead pregnant

With screaming alarms

Monotonous begging chant

Summoning the high priestess of the pillow

To honour yesterday’s victims

Comforting with several hours of respite

Not warranted and no money returned if not satisfied

Robert K. Stephen

Published by Robert K Stephen (CSW)

Robert K Stephen writes about food ,drink, travel, film, and lifestyle issues. He also has published serialized novels "Life at Megacorp", "Virus # 26, "Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog" and "The Penniless Pensioner" Robert was the first associate member of the Wine Writers’ Circle of Canada. He also holds a Mindfulness Certification from the University of Leiden and the University of Toronto. Be it Spanish cured meat, dried fruit, BBQ, or recycled bamboo place mats, Robert endeavours to escape the mundane, which is why he has established this publication. His motto is, "Have Story, Will Write."

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