The visit (at an LTC Facility) A Mercedes parks just off the main entrance A sleek and well-heeled man emerges from within Treading along feeling so fine with his charitable act He visits once a year At the “welcome desk” he is advised his father is not yet Prepared And would he kindly wait aContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds); “The Visit””
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RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Paganistic Birthday Party”
Paganistic Birthday Party Assembled about the synthetic evergreen altar Are the little dazed children Stunned as if pondering the words of the wisemen They murmur their pagan chants Materialistic hymns of candy, games and toys Greedy gleaming eyes of the little fry thought to be cute Wish they could have more than they sere TheContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Paganistic Birthday Party””
RKS British Literature: London the City of Drab Dead (John Fowles)
If Rome, a city of vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse. I had forgotten the innumerability of the place. Its ugliness. Its termite density after the sparsities of the Aegean. It was like mud after diamonds, dank undergrowth after sunlit marble; and asContinue reading “RKS British Literature: London the City of Drab Dead (John Fowles)”
RKS British Literature: The Nakedness and Humanity of Greece (John Fowles)
In my mind Greece lay weeks, not the real hours, behind. The sun shone as certainly, the people were far more elegant, the architecture and the art much richer, but it was as if the Italians, like their Roman ancestors, wore a great mask of luxury, a cosmetic of the over indulged senses, between theContinue reading “RKS British Literature: The Nakedness and Humanity of Greece (John Fowles)”
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Emperor Bokassa murders 153 schoolchildren”
Emperor Bokassa murders 153 schoolchildren Nice little baby Come here little sweetheart Want a big kiss from mummy Little chicken tidbits for a delicate sweetie Daddy poo wants to take you for a walk No big doggie will molest our little baby And when you return home a cookie Oh you are such a wonderfulContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Emperor Bokassa murders 153 schoolchildren””
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “All we get are the coffee grinds”
All we get are the coffee grinds The mighty converge in golden dimensions Crouched behind pheasant and brut Forging the new world For the exclusive benefit of all Charades for fools and the scribbling bloodsuckers Fantasizing Vomiting streams of foulness to be lapped up by ignorant optimists Applauded from the black robed rotunda Let itContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “All we get are the coffee grinds””
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Finalized Conclusion”
Finalized Conclusion You don’t want to BUT You don’t know where to go What you’ve done wrong How many people you have hurt Pain Suffering Selfish grief What can you say What can you do What shall you do The razor blade gently calls To Slide You away Robert K. Stephen
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)
Childhood Plus Slapped on the ass Wrenched out with plastic gloves Spotlight blinds the primary vision Horrid formula milk And the accursed Pablum Shitting all over the place The Big Ones pat our heads So cute But so obnoxious and get rid of them quicks Thrust into the gulag of kindergarten barricades Angry ones YellContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)”
RKS British Literature: The Oh So Polite British Conversation Without Any European Humanity (John Fowles)
Nobody said what they really wanted, what they really thought. Nobody behaved with breadth, with warmth, with naturalness; and finally, it became pathetic. I could see that my host and his wife had a genuine love of Greece, but it lay choked in their throats. The critic made a perceptive little disquisition on Leavis; andContinue reading “RKS British Literature: The Oh So Polite British Conversation Without Any European Humanity (John Fowles)”
RKS British Literature: The Great Misconception About the Nazi Rise to Power (John Fowles)
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazi’s rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true – they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, “You may persecute, you mayContinue reading “RKS British Literature: The Great Misconception About the Nazi Rise to Power (John Fowles)”
