Neo-Nazi

The Neo-Nazi, shaven head and camouflage shorts. His dirty wife beater contrasting his dirty black paratrooper boots. Boots that are laced up with clean, bright red and white laces, leaving no doubt that his people alone shall inherit the Earth. He smokes his cigarette and casts angry glances through eyes squinting in the sun. Veins …

Necrophilia Sestina

The ad will read: “Woman wanted; to help in discovering if male is a necrophiliac. Must be alive but not attached to remaining that way.” It will run for a week in the paper and if anyone wants me to, I will gladly pay. It’s a risky proposition, but you never know. My friend says …

Maybe tomorrow

I don’t have a spare cigarette today or an extra dollar or even a free minute. I need today to be mine and mine alone. Can’t I do that just this once? Forget my phone and the emails, ignore the people on the streets and the list of things that need to be done. Not …

Make Rent

You labeled us all dead but who is in the coffin? I must confess, you confuse me with your words as often as you inspire. Who were you in your drunkenness, stumbling in the darkness of what you saw? The more I read your work the more I want to know you and the more …

Little Beetle

Following a little beetle as it moved with purpose, I wondered about it’s red markings and shiny black shell, while it led me around the driveway. I thought, “it is funny that I am being led by this little bug”, as it scurried along it’s way. And I questioned it, aloud, what it though about …