I started writing when I was 15, trying to “Crystal Blue Persuasion” the poetry world.  46 years have passed since then, taking all of a single second.  Just released from Urban Farmhouse Press is my book of poems called Booking Rooms in the Kuiper Belt.  Also available: Bend of Quiet from Blue Light Press.
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​New Thoughts and Prayers


Dear Lord, 

Please do us all a favor and wipe out people, 
every one, no exceptions.  
Some are kind, some show courage, some write symphonies--
even still, get rid of the whole crappy lot.  Complicit
in how badly we turned out, you let us evolve.  
Why didn’t you stop it before we became—us?
We’re a midnight snack.  Devour and relax.  
Save a few poems, a few paintings, if you like.
No mercy on me, no mercy on the next generation.  
Give the polar bears and white rhinos a chance.  
But no chance, no forgiveness for us.  
It’s too late for that.  Dance 
on our collective grave.  I envy you 
watching dawn coral up a people-free world.

Amen.