2018 – Shattered Soul Poetry

Slaughterhouse

August 4, 2018 Shattered Soul Comments Off

Rather a slaughterhouse Is this what it feels like to use loving hands to commit egregious acts? Killed because they are too many Some go silently as the razor slices their flesh Covers and clapboards […]

The Conversation

July 4, 2018 Shattered Soul Comments Off

We can’t believe we’re having it But yes Where? Where to? Next door? Will they have us? You know our history right? Canada? Hey didn’t your brother know a guy In Saskatchewan? I have friends […]

American Eclipse

June 21, 2018 Shattered Soul Comments Off

The dawn’s early It’s so early This early light Dusty roads and brown babies Tears Trails of them Still! Damn! Men in boots and suits and white cotton knickers with coffee stained breath Making these […]

Useless Items

June 8, 2018 Shattered Soul Comments Off

We’re relieved Yes we’re glad that we failed But we’re relieved that they escaped From the worst of day to day hell Of living with the all consuming darkness Because we’ve been there And stared […]

Boomer

June 3, 2018 Shattered Soul Comments Off

“He’s dead” And I felt the worst possible thing one can feel About another person when those words are uttered Nothing That man Who isn’t even called “father” by his daughter But a mere donor […]

The Post

May 16, 2018 Shattered Soul Comments Off

“NEITHER RAIN, NOR SNOW, NOR THE GLOOM OF NIGHT” My mailbox was very Liberal today. It wasn’t always that way. Today, instead of a photo of a veteran (god, they always looked too young to […]

Trust the Man

May 3, 2018 Shattered Soul Comments Off

Innate feelings of generations Fulfilled by satraps and mimes Mixed with smoky, drink sodden-breath An old Nag named Clementine His hands are made of breaking bridges Eyes rusty searching for gold His mind a thousand […]