Cash flow....not
Would it not be wonderful Getting paid for what I write A dream of many I am told And doubtful that I might If I could get a little cash For all the time I…
Prospects.
“Is he single?” “As far as I know he is. Don’t you go and matchmake again, our daughter is too young to be married and has no interest in matrimony.” She…
Half My Paycheck
Besides my sex-haunted dreams, things have been okay. And I don’t need therapy because I’ll just tell myself. I know because I’m walking beneath sheets of gold…
What Money Can't Buy
“Money can’t buy happiness,” my mother used to say. “Find love. Don’t end up like me. I married for money, and just look where it got me. I love you girls, but…
Lost And Found
“Kati? What do you have there?” Morgan looked toward her thirteen-year-old sister, who seemed to be struggling with some kind of heavy object. “Dunno!” Kati…
Fugue Getta 'Bout It
Clad only in a trenchcoat, I found myself standing in Times Square. I have no recollection of events before my self-awareness, now slowly returning to my hazy…
Play the price
I did it for her. She doesn’t know what I did, and I’m no longer there to tell her. I miss being with her, and her loving embrace. I had to do it though, how…
No Big Deal
Jared waited in the hotel room as his men stood like gun-toting titans wrapped in black tactical armor. They flanked his easy chair and kept track of the…
Backhanded
For the rising young tennis star, it was an embarrassing defeat out on court. The coach clutched his shoulder. ‘Hold your head up high, son, you did the best…
Deleted Poem (For A Lady I Know)
My last sentiment Meant merely cents To her high dollar flight And chauffuer caller that night. I feel without when I’m with her She’s in doubt sniffing drugs…
Fighting For Peace is Like F-ing For Virginity (The End)
(cont.) Where each fingertip prickles And pickles in bleach Quills fill their meat And they’re thrown on the molten beach of deceit Sizzling to a dashing dust…
Fighting For Peace is Like F-ing For Virginity (2)
(Cont.) In cohesion With arms and lead in their guns Who murder daughters and sons-- On the run Until they run red Are stunned and then dead The innocent are…
Fighting For Peace is Like F-ing For Virginity (1)
Spacious Tall and tenacious Places Crawl with anxious Audacious young faces Who’ve acquired a taste For what their superior hates They’re told their life is a…
Help From High Places
The painful bounces coming clearly through to my back told me we’d left well kept city roads, and this car’s shocks had seen better days. The pungent aroma of…
Texas Physics
Ten story drop if I missed it. Two story drop if I made it. I’d had better odds, and I’d had worse. In the glare of that Texas sun fate seemed to smiling…
Away from Next to You
Marian threw her arms around him the moment he opened the door. “Robin!” It was the same everyday. No matter what the weather. No matter how little money he…
Females' Divorce
Parting ways brings such sweet sorrow, but more money for me, tomorrow.
For A Lady I Know
My last sentiment Meant merely cents To her high dollar flight And chauffuer caller that night. I feel without when I’m with her-- She’s in doubt sniffing…
I Spy A Case Of Mistaken Identity
“And he just handed you this briefcase?” Lilly looked sceptical. Alice was sitting across the table from her roommate eating a piece of dry toast. The girls…
Nebraskan Tippers
She takes her corn And leaves no coin The cow that doesn’t tip.