Category Archives: 100 words or less

Love Alone Should Sustain You

Of course.

But as I often was obliged to say to the black robed political appointees I used to shuffle for, “‘Should‘ is a word one should not use in connection to (acronym of inept city agency here)”.  This sometimes drew a sour smile from the person in the black robes.

Love of a thing will only take you so far, though it should, of course, always sustain you.  After a while, as Picasso pointed out, without some real world payment– which may come in a variety of coins– you will eventually reach the point… oh, never mind.

The Darkness

Went to bed early, for me, after a day of exhaustion

This darkness, I thought at one point,

either the black

that proverbially comes just before dawn

or a tasteless prelude to the darkness that goes on

as dark now as 1,000 years from now.  

A fucker with a kennel of power tools

started barking under my window

a few hours later,  

put an end to that right away

Packet of Poems

A packet of poems arrives in the box

I read them throughout a wasted day

during which, at one point in my paralysis,

I wonder about medication  

medication I know to be a crock

based on false tests,

creating as much misery as it purports to cure

enriching powerful

multi-billion dollar snake oil operations.

In the poems a worldview  

Amazing, really, since the poet is a kid  

I find myself writing in the guy’s cadence  

what next, that MacArthur I’ve been banking on?