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Hollywood and the Plains of Sodom and Gomorrah

Hollywood and the Plains of Sodom and Gomorrah We only need the mouth, red, open, of That star of stars, lush Marilyn, to say It all.  Just one small gesture makes us love. The open lips of ripeness kill the gray That dominates our lives.  They symbolize As opposites...

What Movie Stars Can Never Be

    What Movie Stars Can Never Be Enchantment is a slavery to stars Of sweatless screens, the cinema, tv, Or Netflix, or on smartphones.  Out on Mars Stars walk around, and though that’s stupid, we Watch on.  We know that we are lacking like Some Sad Sack clown.  An...

What Poetry Should Be and Never Be

What Poetry Should Be and Never Be Too many people think that poetry Should be like this one photo of a dusk. They think that poetry should only be Pink, lavender, and fuzzy clouds.  No musk Of malenesss, armpit smell, and not, not, not A waft of crotch sweat from a...

Barbaric Yawp

                  Barbaric Yawp His “poetry” is not so much a thing Of barbarism as it is bad Greek Or Roman oratory.  In its ring It has the sound of bombast.  No, not sleek, But more like overstated prose tricked out As verse on pages.  Rhetoric high-flown Quite...