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RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Personalized Rubrics only after”

Personalized Rubrics only after Initially a friendly glance But in the early morning you can never tell But there’s more As the steel rips through your soft belly Mocking Thanatos Has conquered Eros Who Weeps In the silence Of red flashes Robert K. Stephen

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Misogynist Night at the Disco 1976”

Misogynist Night at the Disco 1976 So much Rod Stewart recovering from Jeff Beck shame You I see Mascaraed Glossy pink lipped Silver spooned Corvetted Deodorized Sanitized Mindless at least you’ve inspired a thought Based on your unattainability You piece of Robert K. Stephen

RKS Literature: The Temporary Joy of a Successful Operation (Yury Felsen)

“I was recuperating after a successful operation. The joy, such that convalescents experience was long gone and had given way to neurotic boredom of interminable waiting. Those who are often ill know this impatient reckoning of days and hours, the alarm if the time of discharge is again discharged, the irritability brought on by theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Temporary Joy of a Successful Operation (Yury Felsen)”

RKS Literature: Post Morphine Blues (Yury Felsen)

“I would awake towards morning (already prepared for the requital) with the anguish of an unhabituated drunkard emerging from inebriation, but tenfold and irremediable. A fierce cold penetrated my body, no matter how warmly I enswathed myself. The pain would return, fortified by bitter comparison-just moments ago I had dropped off so serenely. The dayContinue reading “RKS Literature: Post Morphine Blues (Yury Felsen)”

RKS Literature: The Initial Bliss and Joy of Morphine (Yury Felsen)

“After my own operation I had experienced unremitting, unbearable pain, and over the course of ten days, every evening before sleep, that same Margarita would inject me with morphine. I cannot recall another so blissful and happy state that could compare with what you begin to feel several minutes after the injection. Somewhere inside thereContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Initial Bliss and Joy of Morphine (Yury Felsen)”

RKS Literature: After a Southern Lynching How Does Mike the Mob Participant Feel? Part 2 (John Steinbeck)

“He walked around the side of his house and went in the back door. His thin petulant wife was sitting by the open gas oven warming herself. She turned complaining eyes on Mike where he stood in the doorway. Then her eyes widened and hung on his face. ‘You been with a woman,’ she saidContinue reading “RKS Literature: After a Southern Lynching How Does Mike the Mob Participant Feel? Part 2 (John Steinbeck)”

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

The Empty Ballad Basking in the spotlight An angel Feeling so proud and omnipotent Throngs surround Shout for more Critics rave Only Time knows realistic nothingness Words of a passing era Face on an album cover Actually, they hate as nothing like they ever will be A star reality crushes their dreams The lyrics theirContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “The Empty Ballad””

RKS Literature: After a Southern Lynching How Does Mike the Mob Participant Feel? Part 1 (John Steinbeck)

“Mike shied away from the contact. ‘It don’t make you feel nothing.’ He put down his head and increased his pace The little bartender had nearly to trot to keep up. The street lights were fewer. It was darker and safer. Mike burst out, “Makes you feel kind of cut off and tired, but kindContinue reading “RKS Literature: After a Southern Lynching How Does Mike the Mob Participant Feel? Part 1 (John Steinbeck)”

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Mother T Go Home (Tropical Bunga in Reverse)”

Mother T Go Home (Tropical Bunga in Reverse) Necessary victims of the freeze dried The white ice of deadly progress No harpoon redress Trust only hastened the inevitable Amongst mineral rights and the Sovereign And commercial Arctic Ventures Spouted from dollared dentures Accompanied by expanding markets Fishing guidelines for the sub 49er’s Searching for charContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Mother T Go Home (Tropical Bunga in Reverse)””

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

Job Interview Yelps and barks of circus seals Tenuously balancing sparkling balls Adequately But Not dangerously ostentatious Don’t ruffle the placid master Your audience But then don’t underplay Even though Regulations and conventions dictate a certain humility Statutory interpretation on the trapeze act The tumble can be wicked Return to delaying promises and options prudentlyContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Job Interview””