When New York City wasn’t such a friendly place At first what appeared to be a menacing glancelate at night you can never tellbut there is moreas the steel rips through your soft belly Mocking Thanatoshas conquered Eroswhoweepsin silenceamidst the red flashes Robert K. Stephen
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Poetry Corner: “Behind the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall”
Behind the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall Being a party member is a responsibilityWe serve the people with our utmost abilitySo to say we obtain the privileges of an aristocratic nobilityis sheer and scheming capitalist naivety We serve our mighty land and peoplemerely a gunshot (as Beria would say) away fromContinue reading “Poetry Corner: “Behind the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall””
Poetry Corner: “Change of Taste”
Change of Taste Memories of Mordecai Richler and Leonard Cohen in my old MontrealI looked for you at Schwartz’s on the mainbut they told me after Moishes you started eating at Joe Beefthe mighty sirloin defeatsthe lowly smoked meat Robert K. Stephen
Poetry Corner: “Hope”
Hope You-held me spellboundfreshnessnot of plastic concocted standardized perfectionyour smiles in my direction were of courtesy civility and cultured backgroundI tried to touch but you needed everyonethose surly and ugly butchers of your beautyoblivious to you they thundered over youleaving their hoofprints on meripping and agonizing torture I tried to healyou pushed me roughly asidebutContinue reading “Poetry Corner: “Hope””
Poetry Corner: “The hunters”
The hunters Ladies and Gentlemen they sayKill at the officeor in the factories all day it really matters they sayto show them you are the boss of the way like the sheep they hunt there must be leaders or the flock will stray is it really this wayfor them animal and man is eaten offContinue reading “Poetry Corner: “The hunters””
Poetry Corner: “Optical Illusion Oasis”
Optical Illusion Oasis People sitting under the great Canadian frightdrinking heavily in the village of neon lightpretensions of affairs being outtasightreally nothing more than a heard of uptightmatters really aren’t all right Such a pathetic sightit’s strongest on a Saturday nightpeople with nothing to doexcept play acting cool foolsfloundering in the human cesspool Death shouldContinue reading “Poetry Corner: “Optical Illusion Oasis””
Poetry Corner: “Ode to donald trump”
Ode to donald trump Dear me it wasn’t such a shockwhen donald trump was ousted from the flockhis picture everywhereeven where one had to gobut he fell so lowwhere did your friends the fascists gomost of America has woken up and hates you nowyou’ve got the popularity of a turbuculean cow But not all isContinue reading “Poetry Corner: “Ode to donald trump””
Poetry Corner: “Downtown Treblinka”
Downtown Treblinka hemmed into hamlets by the awesome guardpoststhe weary beaten staggerinto black Calcuttian holesto be transported to prosperous futilitywhisked by gleaming publicly funded expenseonly marred by the spots of the unhappily assimilatedbroken only by their black bootsstomped through lack of humanityor lined up on the wall of advanced humility orcutthroat bestialityexperimented on by cleverContinue reading “Poetry Corner: “Downtown Treblinka””
Poetry Corner: “A junkie of sorts”
A junkie of sorts up the highway flows the citrus juicefrom Floridacelebrity Anita Bryant (who is she anyways?)the pusherscores a hitand all are satiatedexcept the Orange Birdwho weeps in lamentfor she can’t talkandis forced to singat gunpoint Robert K. Stephen
Poetry Corner: “Empty Ballad”
Empty Ballad he basks in the spotlightan angelandthe throngs surroundcalling for morethe critics raveonly time knows that he is nothingbut words and music of an eraa face on an album cover They hate him for he is nothing like themmore than they know they will ever behis reality crushes their dreamshis words their fantasy HeContinue reading “Poetry Corner: “Empty Ballad””
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