A Million Angels

Christmas is coming,
Tinsel and laughter,
You know, honey,
What I’m after,
The starlight that settles
Like magical prayers
In your eyes
And upon your hair.

Are you really prepared
To never see me
Or believe me
That I’m in love
With your superlative soul
Fated to save my dreams
From centuries of deprival,
Ever returning back and forth
Throughout the earth
Awaiting your arrival
To merely touch your hand?

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Believe In Humanity

You can dance
Like a drunk
In the summer night,
Laugh with strangers
In the moonlight,
Gaze at girls
That walk in the red light,
Say prayers at hillside shrines
To Shinto Deities
That your parents
Never knew.

Everything is a combination
Of misery and poetry.
You have to swim
In a lake of suffering
To reach the shore
Of self-knowledge
About the reason
You’re living for.

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World-Weary Girl

World-weary girl,
Tears form in your eyes,
Confusion swirls
Like a virulent tornado
Around your heart,
Rending the fragile fabric of your soul,
I fear, irreparably apart.

I want to kiss your delicate face,
Gently touch your hair,
Reassure you I’m on your side,
Reassure you that I care.

World-weary girl,
Invite me into your life,
Help me understand your story
If we have to talk unceasingly
Through the dark and lonely night.

I believe in your struggle,

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Goddess of a New Civilization

She walks these ghetto streets
In refined silence—
The pimps, the drug lords,
And the assorted creeps
Cannot find an avenue
To loosen her lips
To hear her speak.

There’s misery around every corner,
Corpses from random drive-bys
Litter the boulevards like a parade,
There’s too much action
For the cops to discover a donut shop
In which to gather some peace and shade;
And in the midst of this,
Luna is the princess of the gangs
Gracing an invisible throne
In the violent kingdom of poverty.

Blood-red scarf around her throat,

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I’ll Learn One Day What They Know

I ran into Tammy Alderman today.
She asked me, “Do you know
Jerry West died last month of a heart attack? ”
I told her, “No, I didn’t know.”
She then asked, “Do you know
Paul Graff died a year ago
With a brain tumor? ”
I said, “No way! Not Paul!
He was a complete sweetheart,
I knew him from kindergarten!
I’ll think about him now
For the rest of the night! ”

From my teens on,
I’ve gazed at death
With lustful eyes,
But my grade school
And high school pals
Have perished instead!

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The General’s Daughter

There is a plush mansion
On Military Street
Where the princess dwells
With her father the general,
A capable man
With hands stained
With the blood of impressive achievements.

The princess is magnificent in white
With her blond hair pulled tight
Revealing an angelic pale face
More illuminating than moonlight;
Flowers follow her like obedient disciples
And stars swoon for her at night.

I’m the simple pauper
Existing on the cold streets
Of bruised egos,
I’m the singing fool
In love with the art of the soul.

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Compress A Hundred Orgasms

Loud rock music in the midnight steamy air,
Beer bottles and lust in the city,
Girls dance on barroom tables
And sway sweetly beneath streetlights;
Everyone is intoxicated with joy and desire,
Trying to live a thousand dreams in a single night,
Trying to compress a hundred orgasms
Into the excitement of a few happy movements of breath.

More often than not, we get the straightjacket life,
Insults and painful insinuations, the cutting knife,
The gloomy responsibilities of adulthood
That rot the soul, but what a lovely smile
In the brief hour of pleasure that causes the world
To temporarily disappear with her shrill cruel voice.

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Love Is Out of Reach but Not Her Memory

Swept off my feet years ago
By her sexy smile and attitude,
I can never forget what it meant to me
To see her at dawn alive in the sunrise.

Away from her for innumerable seasons,
My heart grows faint but resolute
To always recall her essence
Of independence and perfume.

Those days of her exhilarating presence slip away
Like waves across the ocean
But eventually reach me
When I desperately need a picture of her
To touch my being with wonder.

I’m going to sleep on the roof tonight
And find a star that will lead me to her
To rescue all my dreams from this palpable sadness
That surrounds me like a country fog in the spring morning.

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Pleasantly Annihilated By Your Magical Presence

You’re a young sprite
Making your way through the city
Goddess-like along subway trains
Causing tremulous hearts to palpitate
As you smile and toss your dark hair back
Sighing a lover’s dissatisfied sigh
That would intoxicate the dreams of any male
Until he whimpers and cries.

I’ll take my easel through Parisian streets
And paint the world a new masterpiece,
They’ll see you the way I see you,
They’ll understand why I lie beneath your feet.

My heart is lacerated by the cruel knife
Of this unceasing desire,
Your eyes mercilessly tease me
And torture me with harm,
I may very well cease to exist
If you’re ever on my arm.

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I Never Said This Was an Easy Love

Finding a soul-mate at the university,
We met at the Kierkegaard corner of the library,
Philosophical children in love with despair
With lonely eyes of drunken Kerouac.

Spring courtyard in the sun
Sitting with poetry,
Her magical metaphors
Entered my mind of longing.

I wanted us to grow old together,
To weather the storms of existence
And become fragile together.

But inevitably,
True forlorn beings
Of genuine sadness
Could never survive
Draining each other of joy.

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