Monthly Archives: January 2025
“The Weather Report Comes”
The buildings are large, Apparently meeting code inspection, 100 miles west From where we sit in northern Indiana. . Here, Drab greys Inform the day Amidst boarded-up, Dusty buildings and Stomping, armed madmen, . We acknowledge the giant city Sitting Southwest of Lake Michigan, We read restaurant menus, We shower, Get dressed, Put on necklaces, […]
“Waiting for the DJ”
In the bar I’m working And people kind of just glide in Like drops of water falling. . All of a sudden There’s a black dude drinking IPA and Looking really occupied Tending to some technological gadget. . Then, Out of nowhere, The music comes, The cutting edge in hip-hop, Soul, . Stuff in general […]
“For Eyes Locked in a Stable”
You are threatened By the ingenuous, big picture itself, A predicament so asinine in your Compulsive combat of my simple, Innocuous statement, A diseased condition Which has you defending the world’s Monochromatic functioning As if it were a closed circuit of robotic reactions, As if the universe were some sterile terrarium Created by Turner/Time Warner […]
“Adjudication, Pt. II”
I am watching Like a practical joke The humanity of Logansport, Indiana Restart the wheels and Reenter the functionality of society On January 2, Juxtaposed with the lake Proviso of any number of mishaps, So why should it be surprising When they wield homicidal dispositions Toward me, when they Endorse a president Who devalues human […]