“For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt-of examining what those ideas feel like being lived on a Sunday morning at 7 a.m., after brunch, during wild love, making war, giving birth, mourning our dead-while we suffer the old longings, battle the old warnings and fears of beingContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: There Are No New Ideas (Audre Lorde)”
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RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):YOUR GOVERNMENT: the new Mafia?
YOUR GOVERNMENT: the new Mafia? Remember at one time running the numbers was illegal Yet today the government controls (and profits) from gambling Bleeding dry ruining lives through gambling addiction Oh my remember “narcotics” as a dirty word But now cannabis legal in many jurisdictions Promotion of weed A brave political deed? Delayed hypocrisy indeed!Continue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):YOUR GOVERNMENT: the new Mafia?”
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)THE BIG B
THE BIG B Your sons and daughters attend the best schools While we carry the tools and you try to categorize us as uncouth fools cocaine at the big frat party where anyone over 50 considered farty drive the big cars travel to countries afar their brown Adriatic touched faces gleam but for us WinnipegContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)THE BIG B”
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”FRUSTRATED YOUNG EXECUTIVES”
FRUSTRATED YOUNG EXECUTIVES Group at the bar Hoping for that big break Lying at the bottom of an empty glass Castrated ambitions Thwarted Recalled in fantasized dialogue Of lust frenzied materialism Only to be lost in Yet another glass
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)
THE COYOTE AND THE MOUSE While not a poet of great renown Perhaps I relate to you a story with a frown As a golf course Marshall my job can be seen as akin to a diplomat Keeping the pace of play Making impatient golfers happy and gay I have a numbing early morning shiftContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)”
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): JONI MITCHELL GOT IT ALL WRONG ABOUT THE PARKING LOT
JONI MITCHELL GOT IT ALL WRONG ABOUT THE PARKING LOT Forty years of travelling down to Toronto’s Kensington Market Beautifully located City of Toronto Green P parking lot Right behind Carlos Spice Market and the Portuguese quasi department store A thirty second walk through a rather dirty lane then into the heart of the market!Continue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): JONI MITCHELL GOT IT ALL WRONG ABOUT THE PARKING LOT”
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)
DDR Circus Memories Somewhere in the deep Romanian countryside My feelings debased on the circus ring Subordinated to the vulgar popcorn mouths Soon the master with the whip with the back ripping sting But I’ll look so pretty Shiny fear and gleaming coat and white fangs on those with dignity and pride They came toContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)”
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): Donald J. Trump Superstar
Donald J. Trump Superstar Come now are you really surprised? Robert K. Stephen
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”EVENING MANAGEMENT CLASSES”
EVENING MANAGEMENT CLASSES Upper middle class and more suburban sniffers Assemble after work Haunted by prospects of lower-class blues Fired by ambitious dreams Ontological drama forgotten In the dance of dollars The future manager shines like the Star of Bethlehem steel Clamouring to understand the techniques of worker manipulation And win that Delta 88 Respect,Continue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”EVENING MANAGEMENT CLASSES””
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): Will you kindly SHUT UP (COVID MEMORIES)
Will you kindly SHUT UP (COVID MEMORIES) Living the COVID imprisoned life hardly pleasant With too many thinking these bloody medicos turning statisticians are heaven sent But incessant “public service messaging” is making one’s mind bent Threatening if we do not obey we will all be deceased by Lent This public service chattering verging onContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): Will you kindly SHUT UP (COVID MEMORIES)”
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