My poems are for grown-ups.
You have to be strong in your mind
to go it alone, Thelonious Monk said.
Musician was his job. He didn’t look for work
when he was sharing cigarettes.
his city. He made the cover of Time magazine.
Philip Wylie said he read Time to keep abreast of
the biases. Ha ha, a jazz musician. Ha ha, Miltown.
Ha ha Jim Jones. Ha ha drink the Kool Aid.
Ha ha 9-11. Ha ha the collapse of the banking system.
Ha ha Chalmers Johnson’s Blowback trilogy.
Ha ha Unabomber Manifesto.