When Hope fails

We rely on friends

When friends fail we rely on family

Both of these things are very different to me

When family fails

We rely on ourselves

And when we fail

We rely on teachers

And when teachers fail

We fail and then

When we fail

We die

Whether by suicide or lack of love

Or a broken heart

When we fail sometimes

We are torn apart...

I began busking 10 years ago and still am busking to this very day

I’ve been busking so long that I remember when happy was synonymous with gay

I am now 40 years old and I still busk in the streets

I I beg and busk at the people’s feet’s

Sometimes my tip basket is full

Sometimes it is empty

But I love all for love there is plenty

I used to write women poetry

But then my love broke up with me

...

I am the queen married to the king

The first night we were to be married he escorted me to his bed

He closed the curtain and a man stood outside of the closed curtain

It felt weird knowing there was another soul privy to our love

The king caressed me and pulled off my dress layer by cumbersome layer.

We were experienced and the whole kingdom called him the Royal Player

When we were done we walk...

On September 15th 1998. I met one of the inmates in Riker’s. He didn’t deserve to be in Riker’s. What he had done was petty theft. He had stolen a pair of Nike’s from Macy’s in The Bronx . His defense was that he had given him to the homeless man who lived on the street. Later it came out in court that he had tried to buy them for the man but the lady behind the checkout counter had called securit...

Doesn’t matter if you work hard at your job

Doesn’t matter if you work like a slob

It’s all the up to the employer

Better not annoy him or her

If you have a job

Don’t screw it up

People who live with their parents

Get a stigma attached

But everyone does it now if they are laid off.

Because how are you gonna make money if you don’t have a job

And how are you pay rent on your apartment

Don’t te...

I think I just met the happiest person in the world. As they walked past me I asked them “Excuse Me sir Why are you so happy?”

“They replied I just got laid, promoted and I won an award all on the same day.”

It was the worst day of my life. I couldn’t find anyone to love me, I got fired, and no one knew my talents so I definitely wasn’t getting any awards.

Regardless I kept walking to an uncert...

It was supposed to be a sanctuary. A monument to the new world or the future. But that was all propaganda to ease the public’s concern and distress. Prisons had been supposedly updated to accommodate inmates. I know as well as any good journalist does that this is not the case. You see I was imprisoned for writing a story about how the President had gone mad and appeared to be in bad health. The f...

There used to be a house on the lake but then that house got demolished by a hurricane. The government had the house torn down because some kids went exploring and fell through the floor and drowned. The house was deemed unsafe and marked with big red threatening letters so that all new not to go in unless they planned to die in the house. People steered clear and eventually on March 15 of 1968 it...

I stood over the body. The police and my team had been called to the scene fairly early in the morning. The boy on the ground was 20 years old and wore glasses. I looked closely and examined his wrist. He had cut deep horizontal lines into his wrist, a cry for attention. While examining his wrist, and I had almost missed I noticed a bullet hole in his chest. The boy had shot himself and slashed hi...

In the night

A coyote howls

Fresh from a kill

Howls at the moon high off of pure thrill

Two lovers in a cafe kiss over their burger and fries

They have escaped studies and strict teacher’s for one night.

They have escaped their parents fight.

A cat prowls slowly in the distance in pursuit of a mouse

And then quickly disappears into the hedge or it’s house

The moon is bright and the stars are ou...