by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | AR, VU
Fake Views Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It’s funny how they build a false façade. A pretty, add on semi-circle crowns The church. The shape is lovely, but it’s odd: They make a fake front beauty...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | IS, MO, RE, SP
God Spoke Today I stumbled down the hill to buy some food For Prospero. He does not know that I Had been knocked flat by an extremely rude Disease. In fact he doesn’t know I buy His salmon flakes. He only knows that they Are spooned for him by me. Their...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | EN, GR, WE
Two-edged Politics of Envy The denizens of public housing hate The people who support them paying tax At higher rates, who fund the welfare state. Recipients loathe winners to the max. The big time earners hate the ones who fail To make enough to pay their own way to...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | GA, HE, JE, SE
Wife Beating: Gore and Poetry The Greeks came up with a quite a novel cause For beating wives. The men of Thrace attacked Their wives because they whacked a poet. Claws (Well, jealous fingernails) tore up and hacked To death the world’s greatest singer. They Were...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | HE
The Fighter Calls His Thing His Beast in the First Conquering Scene A hero in the series pissed, turned just Enough to keep the camera from a view Of hanging meat. An audience nonplussed By warrior Thing would not want him to screw In careful focus either, so, when...
