Poetry
San Francisco 2120
It’s the 1% of the 1% now
who sleep, dream, and,
in a reversal that few predicted,
make a great show of doing their own laundry.
They fawn over their Egyptian carbon
Toys in Trouble
Martin was born to jiggle and he did.
Soundly he slept on the ultra-soft mattress
of manmade beliefs, making sense
where there was none, and that was fun.
Each of his many hairs
[From the Archives] Christmas (I)
All after pleasures as I rid one day,
My horse and I, both tir’d, bodie and minde,
With full crie of affections, quite astray,
I took up the next inne I could
[From the Archive] Christmas Crow
A bird is trapped in my house, a crow,
a starling. I do not know birds.
And he keeps battering himself
against the windows. Then, like any bird
in a poem or song,