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RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Reflections on THE CONVENTION”

Reflections on THE CONVENTION Could be in Singapore, Hong Kong or even North Bergen, New Jersey! Identical airwaves Sandwiched between “networking breaks” Not even blushingly Inept bilingually Majestically Christinically present 36,000 starving Ethiopians Beg sickly, Bibles hidden Struggling with the desire to brandish Meanwhile the political arena presents chinless wonders Cheered on by funeral supplyContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Reflections on THE CONVENTION””

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

Vladimir Pooping The little low ranked KGB Vlad the butcher of Bucha Murdered rivals and opposition silenced through tasty plutonium tea Or “falling out of windows” Pussy Riot isn’t in your good books For you and your oligarch crooks No confusion on your part with the idolatry Stalin or Catherine the Great Transforms corruption intoContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Vladimir Pooping””

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Optical Illusion Oasis”

Optical Illusion Oasis People sitting under the great Canadian fright Drinking heavily in the village of neon light Pretensions of affairs being outta sight Really nothing more than a herd of the uptight Things actually aren’t really alright Such a pathetic sight Strongest on a Saturday night People with nothing to do Except playing coolContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Optical Illusion Oasis””

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

The fight for It’s called survival Apologize Prostitute mind and body for THEM And you just might make the suburbs and that second car I hope you like kissing asses And if you don’t kick em in and rot With the rats Robert K. Stephen

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

statistics Tangled in the jagged streel They lie on the highway pavement And a cold winter air wafts the steamy mess Further on down the road Where a crowd stands gawking Pondering how to exaggerate the gristle and guts before them so a to create Interesting dinner conversation Robert K. Stephen

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Mama Bravo Strikes Again”

Mama Bravo Strikes Again (You know that lady on the can of tomatoes) Laughing gaily they take their seats Out of the hostile freeze into the cheap wine and sun of Spain Spanair #612 hurtles down the runway eager passengers await free bar service But! LURCH CRACKLE SNAP AND POP Like Steel Rice Krispies NoContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Mama Bravo Strikes Again””

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

Downtown Treblinka Hemmed into hamlets by awesome tower guard posts The weary and beaten stagger into marbled Calcuttian black holes To be transported up the gleaming shafts to prosperous futility Only marred by the unhappily assimilated Stomped over through the lack of humanity Lined up against the wall of self enforced humility Or Cutthroat bestialityContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Downtown Treblinka””

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 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””