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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””

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Casino COVID”

Casino COVID Caught in slot machine blur Praying for the jackpot of herd immunity Big Pharma legislated impunity The three cherries of hurriedly tested vaccine untested for the long term Could be worse than the germ! RNA concoctions messing with our genes Holy shit where are the simpler days of captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans?Continue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Casino COVID””

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

Casualness The ALL authority Beckons the lecheurs and menials a court of the tactfully polite conveniently spellbound Robert K. Stephen

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Galen Weston Jr. Did You Forget About Kraft Dinner?”

Galen Weston Jr. Did You Forget About Kraft Dinner? What family wealth estimated at 9 billion With all this inflation heartfelt thanks for your “concern” freezing prices on Loblaws house brands showing concern for Canadian’s COVID induced ill financial health But please at Loblaws and your subsidiary Shoppers Drug Mart $2.99 for a box ofContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Galen Weston Jr. Did You Forget About Kraft Dinner?””

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Somewhere in the Amazonian Basin”

Somewhere in the Amazonian Basin Nine-hundred-dollar shoes Certainly not from factory 961in the PRC Adorn the religious spreader Words as thick as peanut butter Sticky Difficult for the anyone to digest Bring God to the dispossessed Amazonian indigenous in some squalid drug and crime ridden town The great resurrection of Elmer Gantry Gathering souls inContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Somewhere in the Amazonian Basin””

RKS Poetry Anthology: “The Attraction of High Fashion”

The Attraction of High Fashion Beautiful people Beautiful bodies Beautiful faces Anorexia inspiration! Old rich vampirish geezers google-eyed fixated on the runway Being and watching the sirloin cuts of life But another photograph away but For now Clicking and whirring Anemic furiousity All for the new fall line Fabricating the New Lifestyle For all toContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: “The Attraction of High Fashion””

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “WARD 23 A”

WARD 23 A Eating burgers and sipping Fanta An entire ward of men gone banana We watched the idiot (did you have to say that word so loudly) box Lawrence Welk (or was it Bert Parks) jumped out and grabbed me But I pushed him back into the tube Ed Sullivan used to stroll outContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “WARD 23 A””

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Russian “liberators” of the Ukraine Heard Singing a Nancy Sinatra Tune”

Russian “liberators” of the Ukraine Heard Singing a Nancy Sinatra Tune “These boots are made for walking And that’s just what they’ll do One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you” Robert K. Stephen

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

The historians Contained in the pens The scribes of the rulers and victors? Attend to the justifications of the slaughter One by one or the thousands Throats slit and bodies thrown on the hooks Guilty historians white lie in the books Justify the hero crook Blind to the fact millions were sorely took by ITT,Continue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “The historians””

RKS Poetry Anthology: “What you have to look forward to or you’d best pawn that gold watch”

What you have to look forward to or you’d best pawn that gold watch You slave for the dignity the weekly pay affords Yes SIR! No SIR! The fortunate may have a pittance of a pension tossed their way Retire and read the paper all day And stretch that cat food all the way! RobertContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: “What you have to look forward to or you’d best pawn that gold watch””