Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Donald Trump (sung to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”)


Trump doesn’t like most Muslims,
Or women, ‘cause “they bleed”;
Calls Warren “Pocahontas.”
(Next, will he say “half-breed?”)

He bullies rivals for his crowds;
His insults are fourth grade.
He tells them, “I will build a wall"
Apparently, without aid.

He bellows out his speeches,
With hate a cardinal part.
Abortion may be legal
Until his change of heart.
 
He“doesn’t know” re: Klan support;
It seems a crying shame
To give someone who's so confused
unsettling press and fame.

Trump says he has done nothing
That God needs to forgive.
Then live and let live, Donald Trump,
And go with God to live.







Thursday, May 12, 2016

Nomads of New York -Documentary on the lives of New York artists

I am pleased to be included in filmmaker Mitch Corber's documentary, Nomads of New York, about New York poets. The film screens Friday, May  20 at 7:00 pm at Film Maker's Coop, 475 Park Avenue So, 6th floor (at 32nd Street).

Larissa Shmailo "In Paran"

Tuesday, May 03, 2016

In memoriam Steven Charles Werner 5/3/55 - 3/26/85



Death at Sea


The heart, someone wrote once,
Couldn’t walk a straight line,
Couldn’t pass the drunk test if it tried.

Some men play the odds; their heads count cards
But their hearts play inside straights.
They can’t bluff, ever,
Show their hand, most times,
And always give the pot away.

Steven died at sea
Holding the dead man’s hand, aces up.
A poker-faced corpse surfaces on the water:
I see
The orange safety vest
Inflated around his neck
Mocking God and me
Now, now, now, now, now---
Too late.

I held his wake in Vegas,
Sat Shiva in casinos
Where there were no windows, no daytime, no peace.
I put him in a casket,
A greedy one-armed bandit
It still asks me for coins
For its insatiable slot.

I hate the beach
The deadsea beach
The sunblocked snorkeled oily beach
The scuba lungs
The deadgrass skirts
The blind bikinied sunglass beach

I hate the sea
The soulless sea
The sentient, malevolent swampy sea
It don’t care if you live
It won’t cry if you die
It boasts like Yaweh
It spits in your eye
The sea
The stupid sea.

But I love the albatross
That took Steven’s soul,
And I love the lighthouse and the shore,
And I love all sailors, both sober and drunk,
That won’t kill a bird no matter what,
And I love the salt and I love the storm,
And I loved Steven, beyond most doubt,

And if I knew then
What I know now
Could I have walked on water
And pulled him out?


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