Poetry

  • What the $?@$ is Going On?

    (From the files of 2025, a look back at some of my controversial thoughts on this hell on earth.) In 2024, Hollywood declared that the Civil War had arrived. The trailer teases you with flurries of out-of-context dialogue, “There’s some… Continue reading

    What the $?@$ is Going On?
  • Shock and Awe

    From the files of 2025 comes Shock and Awe, published three days (January 23, 2025) after The Madman was sworn in for a second term as, get this, President of the United States of America. The bombing came rapidlyBOOM. BOOM.… Continue reading

    Shock and Awe
  • IDGAF

    (This essay was published earlier this year, before the inauguration of the Clown in the White House. I’m republishing this to point out how right I was.) On Monday, January 20, 2025, The Madman will be sworn in as President… Continue reading

    IDGAF
  • i dent i ty

    The following was inspired by the book The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity, edited by Blas Falconer and Lorraine M. Lopez. who am i there are so many names according to themthose people who build the labelswrite the… Continue reading

    i dent i ty
  • 7   7

    December 8, 2025, marks my 77 rotations around the sun. The number 7 7 An angel number, I read it somewhere A powerful sign, I read it somewhere A spiritual awakening And Divine guidance, I read it somewhere I read… Continue reading

    7   7
  • DeoxyriboNucleicAcid

    “DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the molecule inside cells that contains the genetic instructions for an organism’s development and function.” What should I call myself? Should I slip my soul (not the one in the bible)Into your designer wordsThe ones… Continue reading

    DeoxyriboNucleicAcid
  • A Reality TV Pitch

    Housewives of Mar-a-LagoSwapped with Venezuelan women So, their men can seeWhat Reality TV is really like (Please keep the floating Bloated bodies out of view)U.S. Marines are dressed By gay fashion designersto strut down Venezuelan runwaysMove over F-18s We have… Continue reading

    A Reality TV Pitch
  • Closed Shut

    I don’t see nothing I don’t want to see I don’t need to think to solve problemsI don’t want to solve I don’t ask questions to receive answers I don’t want to hearIt’s easier this wayThe pain is sometimes too… Continue reading

    Closed Shut
  • A Year of Violent Living

    The following poetic memoir is part of an upcoming chapbook titled “Walking Backward over Broken Glass.” In 1968, I was nineteen, living in Da Bronx. It was the year of cities burning. New York. Baltimore. Boston. Chicago. Detroit. Kansas City.… Continue reading

    A Year of Violent Living
  • Our Silence Is the Enemy

    Anyone with a brain could see that the Great Deportation plans of the Madman would eventually unfairly target some people. But that doesn’t seem to matter to the MAGA followers. This scheme is simple: keep this nation as European as… Continue reading

    Our Silence Is the Enemy