I Return 

from howler monkey spaceto the bottom of this lagoonthe yellow tape snakes between the rocks this is not waterbut the tearsof ancient drowned marinerswashed ashorestruggling to collect the tapeMany cats effortlessly floating by”you do not need that air mask”they are wordless in their mewingtheir reassuring purrsAbove the observation is“he will never collect all that yellow…

I am making shadow puppets 

Baby pictures I remember from the photographThe texture of the shag carpet Below my chubby armsMy sonBefore the collapse of reasonLeaning his cheek against mineIn a gesture of love and affection BelowThe “Utopia of Power”The history of Stalin’srise to powerAfter Lenin’s deathThe “very important now”Next to a multi tap with usb plugsChinese AI robot dogs…

Light Years Yawn

At the edge of sleepPhotons arrive 11 billion light years traveling from theBiggest of all bangsThe mortal data pushes theSound into all the corners In a playful dance ofMost Rare atmosphere Swooping and divingAs the drummer, timeYawns into theAbyss of infinity June 19, 2024 SGL Brunswick, ME

Memorial Day seeing

The mirror has no friendsThe seeing does not stopThe eyelids are fluttering The resonance  Scot Gresham-LancasterBrunswick ME May 27th, 2024

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…