Set the alarm Agonizing daybreak Punch your timecard in the slot of mockery Distant from the Club Med Packaged release Can be cached When the rat trap salesman and the countess Frolic in the bathtubs of seedy motels While fantasy hawkers crouch behind the armchair teasing pulsating veins Praise aortas! Alas it beats Arduously battlingContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: “Set the alarm””
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RKS Poetry Anthology: “No reply”
No reply You ask I can’t reply An Everest of hesitation mugs the brain you ask I can’t reply Robert K. Stephen
RKS Poetry Anthology: “Honeymoon at Saratoga Springs (Circa 1961)”
Honeymoon at Saratoga Springs (Circa 1961) Well it certainly was quite a day Let’s go to bed Wait! I’ve got to brush my teeth You already did Come on why don’t we go for a walk But it’s two o’clock in the morning Oh all right Turn off the light and look the other wayContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: “Honeymoon at Saratoga Springs (Circa 1961)””
RKS Poetry Anthology: “My Ninety Minutes as a Palestinian Hostage” (NAMBY)
My Ninety Minutes as a Palestinian Hostage (NAMBY) In the midst of dropping off spouse at Toronto’s The Four Seasons Centre for an opera performance Unfortunately, at the corner just opposite the United States Embassy An angry chanting mob many in keffiyeh shouting Allah is great AND DEATH TO AMERICA! Biden being burnt in effigyContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: “My Ninety Minutes as a Palestinian Hostage” (NAMBY)”
RKS Poetry Anthology: “Was it better in the old country?”
Was it better in the old country? We were in a cab last night I was staring at the meter intensely uptight While the driver was talking to you Of stories of love and wine Ah……the girls of his youth In the old country Many grey hairs less Robert K. Stephen
RKS Poetry Anthology: “The Fascist playbook new edition and old strategy”
The Fascist playbook new edition and old strategy Those in The 50 beware True and tested ensconced in a revised playbook edition Resurrect Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin with a new fascist tradition Resisting will be sedition Create a historical myth of some fictional purity Always better in days of yore secret police required proudly bearingContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: “The Fascist playbook new edition and old strategy””
RKS Poetry Anthology: “COVID Variant B.11.529 Greedy and Too Late”
COVID Variant B.11.529 Greedy and Too Late Mutated COVID-19 variant with apparent origins in South Africa Cases emerge in the EU “Valiant and brave” effort to contain the spread First World descending towards more lockdown dread Should have avoided sharing the vaccine to the Second and Third World instead First World countries far too greedyContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: “COVID Variant B.11.529 Greedy and Too Late””
RKS Poetry Anthology: “After the revolution”
After the revolution Bodies strewn about roasted by the equatorial sun Guarded by the stench And still moist from last night’s deluge The aroma Of rotting flesh Calls we bugs to the feast Robert K. Stephen
RKS Poetry Anthology: “War”
War Looking for Uncle Bill RCAF 1942 in the UK Lincolnshire Lost In The graveyard I Wonder why? Robert K. Stephen
RKS Poetry Anthology: “The eternal sandbox”
The eternal sandbox Young and innocent Time consuming frivolity Equality of youth Shattered The dinky toyed hours Pen and suits Boots and hands A mild game struggle Children versus children Life kept on that harmless level Fun and simple Lost and baffled in gaming politeness Forgetting who the real enemies are Robert K. Stephen
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