An Explication of “I Refuse”

I Refuse   (posted 4/3/18) What exactly is the reason for your refusal? Why not join the main game? Everyone is winning. To be a winner, what do you have to lose? Maybe you’ll be lucky.                                                                                  ...

I Refuse

What exactly is the reason for your refusal? Why not join the main game? Everyone is winning. To be a winner, what do you have to lose? Maybe you’ll be lucky.                                                                                                              ...

As an Old Man

As an old man I want to be considered unarmed yet extremely dangerous. Instead of nurses at my bedside, guards at the door. No tubes, but chains barely keeping me from a life that is yet to be. I want to see fear in the eyes of the young men who guard me. Instead of...

Gun Violence Rap

There are semi-automatics, made in factories, sold in stores there are hollow pointed bullets that are only made for wars. There are businessmen in shirtsleeves, selling guns to make a buck, while in the darkening city an ex-convict’s out of luck. There’s a killing in...

River Poem

the river runs through the town into the town out of the town the river locates the town it is on the river a river town the town confines the river the river divides the town the council building bridges the river is on its mind an old man fishing the river is on his...