Gorky's Ghost
(copyright 2020 Michael Walker)
There is a way down through the canyon
With a crayon and a sunset
There is a way up through the ocean
With a flower and a moon rise.
There is a way out of this conundrum
A way out of this
Humdrum
Poverty of works
And crumbling rooms.
There is a way over and a way out
And...
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Corporate Blues
(copyright 2020 by Michael Walker)
How will we make it
Until then?
Becomes the song
And we invite you all
To sing along
Words of desperation
Words of despair
Let's write them down now
In the Common Book of Prayer
The Company likes it
When you're living large
Buying bread and rice
With their credit card
And now the world is a Village...
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(MWalker copyright 2020)
Blank Woman Fishnet Stockings greets me at the door of The Enchanted Seas…
“Hello… welcome to the door of The Enchanted Seas…shall I call you daddy, Daddy?” Blank Woman Fishnet Stockings asks, automatically dropping to her knees.
She is lithe and thin with blue hair and tattoos of black ribbons right under her buttocks.
I am amenable. I have some little money....
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Notes on Kulture
copyright 2020 Michael Walker
The crazy/carousing Junk Mobile that gave me/us this permanent cough. That said: Here is your laser gun, you lucky so-and-so. And your Holy Socks. Get a move on Little Buckaroo. Or be truly lost...
I am truly lost beneath these sodium lamps. The moths trying to fornicate with the Moon. Truly lost...
(Get a move on, you lucky...
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The Girls From Brazil
Copyright 2020 by Michael Walker
The girls from Brazil
Are beautiful
They take their tops off
As I trudge up this hill.
The girls from Brazil
Are beautiful
They live on blue beaches
While I go down and get the bills.
The girls from Brazil
Seep Portuguese
Sing Desifinado
To hairless dogs
Drink rum from coconut shells
Live in houses
Of...
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UFO
Copyright 2020 Michael S. Walker
Explain her away
As swamp gas
Or a weather balloon
A helicopter
With its searchlights
Full throttle
I have to explain HER
As SOMETHING
Else, I will go crazy
Staring into those eyes
As big as saucers
This connection across
Light years
A crowded bar room
Pared down to some
Tractor beam
It was just a little too much...
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Poem to Silence
Copyright 2020 by Michael S. Walker
Silence
You desert island
I will try to
Break open
Some green husks
Here
See if there is any
Meat or milk.
I will go to the shipwreck
And bring back, quickly
What tools I can
I have only a few hours you know
Before the
Habitual storm resumes
A few hours
Before the pirates turn...
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Jade Stoner
I tried to draw you
All I got
Were violet eyes
The rest was noise
And hieroglyphs
(Something
Napoleon Dynamite
Would throw away.)
Jade Stoner
I tried
But I can't get
Your bottom lip to
Misbehave
The way it seem to do
In real life
Can't get some stick finger
To puncture it
The way it do
In real life
Can't get your...
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End of Weekend Thoughts
Copyright 2020 by Michael S. Walker
The world was old before you were born. Some young girl told you that yesterday. Why had that never occurred to you, dude? Why was that a revelation from her shiny lips and perfect breasts? The world WAS old before you were born. You like to joke that you're now a trilobite with arms. A...
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