Other Non-fiction

could it be
that accompanying the
biggest heart
is the largest pool of
seething
rage
(and that they cannot be
separated---that because one
exists, the other has been
formed)---

For more than 30 years it had stood there...

dear Mr. maniacally-raving-mad-
repugnican-
representative
Daugaard,
if a kid in your school has a gun &
your teacher has a gun,
and the teacher fires first,
or the kid fires first &

A refugee camp in Jordan.
(First posted on http://poetry-24.blogspot.co.uk/)

always had to take her shoes off in the house---
she’d been in enough men’s arms at this stage
to wonder what she was doing with a man who
was a model metro in the 21st century---

oh these Google Glass(es)
are gonna put a whole new meaning behind
beating up the guy/gal who is
wearing em’---
as the 5 Point Café in Seattle, WA,
courageously takes the first step to

two otherwise rational people
appear as if conflict had never
got into the car with the both of em’
when they commenced this
journey---
but that was when they both had it in the

now that Chavez is dead,
the american oil companies
chomping at the bit
begin to salivate & lick their lips,
seething
with the foam
of potent country-gutting
rabies---

You weren't a saint but you were extremely close.
Out of all of the people on Earth, I've always loved you the most.
It will be very painful as they lower you into the ground.

I was on a family holiday in Dubrovnik in the late eighties at a time when it was still part of old republic of Yugoslavia.

get this---
you put the person behind you…
you did your best to burn them,
to amicably make closure with them,
to see their face,
however you now imagine it,
in the
rearview mirror
& then,

Dennis meets the president of
North Korea & says the guy is a
good guy…that is,
on a personal level,
he is a human being who likes
basketball---

have you seen the face of the “changed man?”
you know, the one who lost the girl but
wants to get her back---
so he converts himself
into the antithesis of what he once was,

Public hearing…
Some argots from religion cults are here.

christian child molester with holy guise #1:

“psst…has joey been locked up
in the cage (vatican)? has he been
put in a safe place where he can’t be heard,

what is it but the possibility of excitement
that really excites us?
for when some hear news of a storm coming,
they gather all their things &
their mouths are in constant babble with others,

after leaving the shrink in question,
s/he pondered while walking down the street
outside her/his office,
wondering just what the next one would look like,
wondering just how long it would take

Q.
how will Israel
“calm the territory?”

A.
with imprisonment &
torture behind the walls,
like they killed Arafat Jaradat.

and we can watch the soldiers get up in the

I was there the day they said the works would close.
Overcast. the day BR Engineering chose;
Throwing down the news of death of Swindon pride;
Dreaming foreign locos. Ten thousand people cried.

driven
face
down
into the
bed
into the
pillow
hands out
squeezing the
sheets for
all dear
life---
she didn’t
plan on
this &
yet this is
what
happened &
what could