"Labor Relations"

Management is
a pile of shit

The union is
a pile of shit

Usually
the management pile

is bigger.





"It's All  Relative"

(for David Martini,  formerly known as Ira Guberman)

we spent the train ride
and the drive in the car
talking

two writers
discussing our 
disfunctional
families

you won the contest,
and I felt sane
for the first time
in years

yet i'm jealous
of your suffering,

you have
the better stories
to tell

life is easier as art,
so much harder 
to live

paper does not scream
when scratched
with ink
or rolled through presses

and a book
can be closed
at the end
without dying




"i need a god"


i need a god
that gives head
at 2 a.m.

i need a god
who will shave me
when i forget

i need a god
who will keep me
medicated

i need a god
whose communion
tastes like cunt

i need a god
who understand
my blasphemies

i need a god
who crowns me with thorns
and takes my picture

i need a god
who passes the bottle
without lipping

i need a god
with belly laugh
sense of humor

i need a god
who likes the late late show
on channel 48

i need a god
who isn't so much a god
as a dog looking in a mirror

i need a god
but that don't mean
i'm gonna get one

but i'll keep asking
and passing
the collection plate





"Think About It"
.
think of a moment in time
it is your moment
you know what it is
you know what it was
a moment you wish
you could turn
into an endless loop
an event that happened
in your life
a miracle perhaps
something that never
should have happened
but did
and now it is yours
to share or keep hidden
but never forget
think of this moment
and only this moment
(but do not think
about green polar bears
unless your moment
involved green polar bears,
or feathered snakes
dancing in top hats,
or Robinson Carusoe
on Mars)
now just think
of your moment
and forget about the rest of this.

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