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Médecins Sans Frontières

Médecins Sans Frontières …. Now even doctors for a charity Must be sexed up. They go to help in war Zones, in the broken bone severity Of mass catastrophe, but requests for Donations now require the sex appeal That permeates our whole society. The patient lifts...

Modern Improvements

Modern Improvements I find it faintly droll that Caesar had No clue about Napoleon and Hitler, that Augustus never knew how ultra bad That Mao and Josef Stalin were. How flat Those Caesars would have felt if only they Had known how pipsqueak they would seem compared...

Florida Sunshine

       Florida Sunshine Although my memories, bleached by time, by years And decades, are both pale and patchy, some At least float, vivid.  Often those with fears And pain recede. Noon beauties overcome These bad ones.  Photographs of me when blond, So blond that it...

When I Wake Up, I am Absent from Thee

When I Wake Up, I am Absent from Thee   ‘As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.’     2 Corinthians 1:7 Two continents and long tides far away You live alone now and we sleep apart. The beauties of my high spec life hold sway,...

The Rest is Silence

          The Rest is Silence A vacuum-like presence fills my veins, My arteries, my heart, yes, mostly in My chest. These vessels for my blood have stains Still where pulse used to course. Each ulta-thin Tattoo that love has mottled on their walls Is ugliness made up...

Intravenous Love: A Sonnet Sequence

           Intravenous Love:            A Sonnet Sequence I I take my drug in doses that must last For months—or years.  Your distance now restrains Me from continuous supply.  In veins Scarred caution punctures steady highs, but vast Effects on mind and soul make...