REALITY BYTES Behold the celebrated success Of reality in reality bytes, Where digital damsels in distress Are rescued by avatar knights. These mighty bytes Of faux emotion Soothe our synapses With tribal brain lotion. It’s a sea of hardly humans, Mere...
WARNING SIGNS Can’t put the genie in the bottle Or the grapes back on the vine, We always went full throttle, Shot up every warning sign. Then like that the melee ended Put our guns back in our belts, All the people we offended, It’s the best we ever felt....
THE LAST DAYS OF TRIBELLA It was the place to be Back in 1993, Waiters waiting, Servers serving, Bartenders tending, Everybody spending, Glasses clinking, Nobody thinking, Bouncing along On a merry wave Of small talk, wine-of-the-month-and-cheese talk, Living large...
OUT OF OCEANUS Year of the Consulship of Lucullus and Cotta The incoming tide gently curled That first day around my sons and me, Here in my boat at the edge of the world, As we cast our nets off the rocky shore, Safely distant, so we thought, from the legions and the...
THE PLACE WE WENT The place we went Is a Walmart now Selling Wonder Bread And other things People buy instead. Three hundred miles apart, We found the place we went halfway, Spread a blanket and drank Chardonnay, Under ancient maple trees, Lay back for hours counting...
