Adorned

inner lights flash their wretched sign, it is closing time. outside lights blast my pinhole eyes, police driving by – tell me to keep moving. my head is not still, it is my feet that are numb, arrest my feet! feel me, beat me, kick me, lock me up. you have failed mother fucker to…

So, you have come back. Has it been twenty years? You look as if it has been forty. Gray hair ragged and tattered, so thin I can see your skull; Wasn’t it once blonde and beautiful? Yes, I have a picture here, it is now as wrinkled as you. Time has not been kind, my…

I am not Anne I have never claimed to be nothing more than I am. Usually I claim less unless forced to confess I willingly give up my name. Only once was I insane but if you ask my brothers they will say I never got off the train. They who are farmers, adulterers, and…

in his world he is a captain a leader of legions of battle ready warriors from his gold embroidered cap to his shined boots woven into the fabric of his green fatigues he is the master strategist the holder of humankind fate a winner among the losers from where i see him the illusion is…

I sensed you were near but I could not see you, I could not hear you, the warmth of your hug did not stir my soul, your insight into the human condition did not engage me – that day. Still, something, perhaps an undeveloped sixth sense, a probe into the twilight of my existence, something……

You see a homeless bum, when you look at me incapable of love, living on the street. A fallen man living off your trash A lazy buggar begging a buck I scare your wife on her Sunday drive You tell your kids ‘be good or you’ll be like him’. But it’s you, your kind –…