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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 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 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””

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””