Indictments

“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote
so many years ago; to tame the savageness of man
and make gentle the life of this world…”

Robert Kennedy’s response to the assassination

of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Indictments

“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago; to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world…”

Robert Kennedy’s response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Poems In Four Counts

(Click on Poem Title)

COUNT ONE

“The establishment is made of little men –
very frightened”

– Bella Absug

A Short History Of America

Life As A Commercial

First World Folie

Indictments

So

Breakfast In Suburbia

Self Made

Nondeductible

A Workingman’s Hands

Bottom Lines

Out In A Dry Rain

Once In Manhattan

The Offices At Twenty-One West Tenth

Sales

Neighborhoods Of Shady Streets

An American Family

Social Diseases

Alumni

Argyle Socks

Dressing Barbie

Vagabond

Senior Delinquents

Trash

2000 Something In America

Deserted Front Porches

A Brief Analysis Of The Situation

Bubble

Bars In Mountain Towns

In The Reign Of Our Terror

The Pigeons Of Chernoble

Country Club Man

“Thine Alabaster Cities Gleam”

COUNT TWO

Sing me a dirge of the lost mother,
of the childhood never lived…

Chalk Against Cement

Eyes of Owls

American Dachau

Child Geography

Lion Tamers

Tough Love

The Boys Of Rio

Leather Jackets

Brat

Big Wheels

Ashes

The Piety Dogs

Off Kilter

Laughing Boy

Red Brick Apartments

Yellow Acrylic

When I Was An Actor

Down The Baby Food Aisle

Running In The Rain

The Graduation Of John J

Children Of No-Count Wars

Little Girl with Ancient Eyes

COUNT THREE

“All the brave soldiers that cannot get older
have been asking after you…”

– “Daylight Again”, Crosby, Stills & Nash

A Belated Letter To My Draft Board

Door Ajar

Bobby Kennedy Has Been Shot

Silver Scar

Cardboard Revolution

Mission On A Sultry Day

Swashbucklers

Ratan Rises Existential

Plans For A Rambling House

Tailor Shop Window

Stride

Saturday Soldiers

Bunker Line Songs

A Cicada Shell

Another Memorial Day

COUNT FOUR

“Consideration of particle emission from black holes would seem to suggest that God not only plays dice, but also throws them where they cannot be seen.”

Stephen Hawking

Natural Law

Dying As Another Science Project

Hit Man

On The Nature Of Tumors

Almost Died

The Question

They

A Campaign Against Ex Cetera

At The Women’s March

The Case Against God

Wounded Birds

Between Beachfront Hotels

Death Of The Javelina

Elk Season

So Went The Quagga

‘n,

Under Leaves

A Breach Of Nature


Driftwood


The Malice Of Snow


Organic


Murderous Thoughts


Time On Earth

At The Great Divide

I Cry Easy Now

The Brown Bagger

Dad In The Dock

On The Backs Of Old Men

After The Great Liberation

Attic Fan

The Man In The Window By The Sea

The Coming Of The Far Forest

Fit For Life

The Old Reporter

Late in October

The Silenced

The Search for a Peaceful Life

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