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RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “statistics”

statistics Tangled in the jagged streel They lie on the highway pavement And a cold winter air wafts the steamy mess Further on down the road Where a crowd stands gawking Pondering how to exaggerate the gristle and guts before them so a to create Interesting dinner conversation Robert K. Stephen

RKS Literature: Sleeping with a Cannibal (Herman Melville)

“Ye gettee in’ he added, motioning to me with his tomahawk, and throwing the clothes to one side. He really did this in not only a civil but a really kind and charitable way. I stood looking at him a moment. For all his tattooing he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.Continue reading “RKS Literature: Sleeping with a Cannibal (Herman Melville)”

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Mama Bravo Strikes Again”

Mama Bravo Strikes Again (You know that lady on the can of tomatoes) Laughing gaily they take their seats Out of the hostile freeze into the cheap wine and sun of Spain Spanair #612 hurtles down the runway eager passengers await free bar service But! LURCH CRACKLE SNAP AND POP Like Steel Rice Krispies NoContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Mama Bravo Strikes Again””

RKS Literature: No Reason for a Sailor to Sleep in a Bed for Two (Herman Melville)

“No man prefers to sleep two in a bed, In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in aContinue reading “RKS Literature: No Reason for a Sailor to Sleep in a Bed for Two (Herman Melville)”

RKS Literature: “Tooth Money Thievery” (William S. Burroughs)

“She was constantly saving money to have teeth out, but somehow she always spent the money on something else. Either she got drunk on it, or she gave it to someone in a in irrational fit of generosity. She was a mark for every con artist in Tangier because she was known to have moneyContinue reading “RKS Literature: “Tooth Money Thievery” (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS Literature: “Beautiful Mouth But not so Beautiful Teeth!” (William S. Burroughs)

“When she opened her mouth to speak, she revealed horrible teeth, gray, carious, repaired rather than filled with pieces of steel-some actually rusty, other of copper covered with green verdigis. The teeth were abnormally large and crowded over each other. Broken, corroded braces stuck to them like an old barbed wire fence.” William S. Burroughs,Continue reading “RKS Literature: “Beautiful Mouth But not so Beautiful Teeth!” (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS Literature: “Quitting Junk and the Last Words of the Mad Dog Esposito Brothers” (William S. Burroughs)

“Lee walked about the room. ‘I have to quit,’ he said over and over, feeling the gravity pull of junk in his cells. He experienced a moment of panic. A cry of despair wrenched his body: I have to get out of here: I have to make a break.’ As he said those words, heContinue reading “RKS Literature: “Quitting Junk and the Last Words of the Mad Dog Esposito Brothers” (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Downtown Treblinka”

Downtown Treblinka Hemmed into hamlets by awesome tower guard posts The weary and beaten stagger into marbled Calcuttian black holes To be transported up the gleaming shafts to prosperous futility Only marred by the unhappily assimilated Stomped over through the lack of humanity Lined up against the wall of self enforced humility Or Cutthroat bestialityContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Downtown Treblinka””

RKS Literature: Oceans are the Key to it All (Herman Melville)

“And still deeper the meaning of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the keyContinue reading “RKS Literature: Oceans are the Key to it All (Herman Melville)”

RKS Literature: All the Difference Between Paying and Being Paid (Herman Melville)

“And I always go to the sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.Continue reading “RKS Literature: All the Difference Between Paying and Being Paid (Herman Melville)”