Category Archives: Poetry

A Wet March Saturday

March 23, 2024 – 4:58 pm

Saturday March 23 Snow up north of Albany Slush on Warren Street In Hudson And the hard rain Done in Brooklyn Fingertips feel like winter Toes warm in good boots The streets shed of people Awaiting Tomorrow’s Warm Palm Sunday.

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December 16, 1978 – East Village – Journal

March 23, 2024 – 8:59 am

A Pleasant Paradise 1963 Snipers murdered JFK 1968 A sniper kills Malcolm Luther King. Gunmen assassinate Malcolm X and RFK Out leaders dying before their time Before their replacements Richard Nixon betrayed the USA But kept coming back The Messiah of the Silent Majority Why did you live? When so many others died. Almost sixty […]

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Mirrors Don’t Tell All

March 12, 2024 – 11:03 am

We look in the mirror thinking that’s how people see us but it’s how we see ourselves. At one time I stopped looking in the mirror and only viewed myself as a shadow at sunset. Now I look in the mirror and no longer see who I was or am or will be. I only […]

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BLOOD AND MUSCLES @ CBGBs – 1978

March 12, 2024 – 8:55 am

1978 The Hell’s Angels frequented CBGBs. A rough Bowery bar. No one challenged their claim to the punk rock venue, The Angels scared off other asshole bikers, although not every night. The Cramps first played to a packed house of garage rock fans adn some Jersey bikers. As if the world was diving into the […]

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Key West Light – April 1981

March 5, 2024 – 3:50 pm

A few palm trees in sight Wavering in the Key West light. High noon on Key West Even in the shade The blinding brightness All horizons so close Key West. No sailor fears the edge of the world I know no fear I stand on Key West. 95 miles from Cuba. Swim out South from […]

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