Poem: Happy Birthday Bob

Many years ago I needed shelter from the storm
from a hard rain that was a-gonna falling
a tambourine man beckoned me in
to safe harbors saving me from the hurricane

I was positive we were on 4th street
where he introduced me to his rainy day women

Poem: Howl for Alan Ginsberg

I have seen my countrymen draped in flags howling in screeching voices echoing talking heads
without a shadow of original thought
holding with arms their arms that have no arms to hold them back rolling in surplus ammo and
decommissioned military gear for their childhood cosplay fantasies
screams about the disenfranchisement of the hetero white male oppressed my women with dicks
wrapped in a rainbow of skin colors protesting about lives that matter

Poem: Dear Charles (Bukowski) Written on a Cocktail Napkin 5/18/21

I wish
I could’ve seen you
in your unwashed glory
five day old beard
of someone who couldn’t
careless
smelling
of indescribable liquor
sweats staining
a tee shirt
that was white once