Valentines’ Day Sonnet

If only love were just as simplistic
As the corny fetishistic desire
That society sells as dramatic
Something more altruistic might inspire

For these ardent emotions kidnap souls
Abetted by patriarchal routines
Shoving ev’rybody into their holes
Most of the weaker it cruelly demeans

But we all need these infusions of love
To remind us of our humanity
Though corporations at us it will shove
Of course true love is ǝʞıן insanity

Valentine’s Day can prime our love’s pump
Although it can also expose a chump

•Parasite• Oscar Sonnet

Because •Parasite• won the Oscar

It suggests the beginning of a change

In the higher brow popular culture:

So People Of Color are now less strange

We indulge in cinematic fiction

Loving the suspension of disbelief

Gobbling up the popcorn-like-action

Simply accepting the assumptions chief

Movies’ humanity is created

It’s a well worn path of structures given

A hierarchy: some are defeated

& Women into Eve’s story driven

But still it is a tiny miracle

That culture’s making things more possible

Brooklyn Murder Suicide Sonnet

When Falling In Love we ourselves extend

Hearts sending out tender capillaries

To fertilize love for a sweeter trend

& dodging loneliness’s vagaries

But maybe one cannot live up, you know

To the amorous baggage therein

The dream Cupid looses from his bow

Is a strange love song on a theramin

What becomes of amorous delusions?

Reality rumbles from the tunnel

& all that remains are his illusions

His dreams & her body are then pummeled

Brooklyn Subway Murder-&-Suicide

Pulls to eternity the lies they tried

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-couple-killed-train-murder-suicide-brooklyn-20180727-story.html

Bland Warm Beer

Sandra Bland & Otto Warmbier are
Obverse sides of the law-&-order coin
One’s intercontinental travel went far
The other got the role of oppressed toy

Both existences are tragic stories:
Good people done in by crooked systems
Their tales of injustice tired & hoary:
They might well be Old Testament lessons

But our media will defend but one
Defending the undefendable way
Our brutal racist system deals with some
Lamenting Otto Warmbier’s sad display

So as you surf the internet notice
How racism is a given: know this!

All Women Are Mothers

To all the women who helped to raise me
My crazy mother: her sainted patience
The ones whom I dated with vanity
& Linda who tamed me with diligence

The mothers of my friends who understood
That I had to circle the selfish drain
Before becoming the man that I would
I had to inflict & suffer some pain

“Little girls,” pretty young women taught me
(Perhaps my daughters most surprisingly)
How to treat women with less calumny
Which men macho taught me misleadingly

All men are made completely of women
& their suppression is an ill omen

Debt

   
We are in debt to the one percent

& the system’s continuity 

We enjoy the modernity meant

By all of this superfluity 
Beautiful cars: living rooms on wheels

& Amazing smartphone devices

Televisions (on which we got deals)

All ʇɐɥʇ which we didn’t check prices
We owe this money to the future:

Rockets & self-driving hover cars

The things that their fantasy sutures 

Onto our needs: peace, food, & shelter
We owe two-hundred-thirty-three-trillion

To keep our corrupted momentum