The mirror has no friendsThe seeing does not stopThe eyelids are fluttering The resonance Scot Gresham-LancasterBrunswick ME May 27th, 2024
Category: Poetry
Here is a collection of various poems spanning the last five years. Among these are a few from decades ago
When America was Great
Following a golf ball to the head, his subsequent medical leave a 2019 Lake Shasta boat party where he said the Judge called him a “Jew-boy,” pushed him in the lake and made advances on his wife. the Appeal was lostlack of evidence No ruling to reverse the firing Ended upliving in this shabby tentbeneath…
Spectacular
Is that piss dripping off my testicles?My slaveWill lick that upOh no, there are no slavesIn this trailer parkTrump will fix this 4/14/2024 SGL Brunswick, ME
Waking
Eye lids stirbefore that moment of realization Another dawn Another day to dance before the mocking … the relentless maw of deathand the promiseof the way it wasbefore one’s birth into this land where sparks fly from wheelswhere the fires burn and burnthe clocks that never stop ticking until that moment of return united in…
The Darkness at Noon
The underworld is just the worlda “Blue Death-Feigning Beetle.”It survived by pretending it was dead … like democracyThey come back to life before being stomped by a rich man’s bootIn the early springFeel Free like Fred Hampton didThe snow melts so fast April 4, 2024 SGL Brunswick, ME
Long Dormant Wound
Rising up to fester When I’m nervous I try (too hard) to be cleverMy wife is under the knife right nowWhat is a non praying man to do?“I wanna be here for suppah”Said the old man in the adjacent roomHe didn’t know where he wasAfter surgery Oh Father, Art thou in Heaven?Hollow was your blame,your…
Death mask
If you can predict it It is not emergent Beauty is agency, butthere is a surprising depth to the artificial Imagine that moment When it all ends …Is it a break in the continuity of flow? the simulation …The moment when the linearity goes away with a sudden click?Is it a wonderful rush to a…
My Mother’s Brush
Small, purse size, dental white handle with black bristles I had never really removed the entangled thinning hair Not unlike the fading memories of her Brunswick 2-24-24 SGL
Utopian Asymptote
Surveillance shots Little needle tractors Digging sewer lines in the garden of the deadMaster SpicerNo more fresh micro greens For all the tattooed chefsStriving forever, never reaching taste bud perfection Sting of street pharmaceuticals on the loosened tongueVodka over ice chasing roofies Unbridled lust In a careful carefree box Yellow is the color of the…
Phoenix Rising
No atom is an islandA single hand does not clapLife and breath“After my failed marriage, I was like a phoenix rising”Feverish 30 year old was typing“Killer, click grabbing headline”She thought“Maybe I can get enough clicksI only need $1200for the abortion”It works until it doesn’t. It’s magic untilIt’s knot 2/2/2024 SGL Brunswick, ME