Days slip away Brown hair turns gray As a boy turns into a man. 4/18/18 My 17th poem […]
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Shitholes, assholes, Misinformation, and lies. Fascism, racism, This is how democracy dies. Demagogues, lapdogs, Spineless senators falling in […]
Walking darkened halls each day Just for the chance she’ll look your way And when the moment came, […]
Cold black blade Burning blood red runes Wisdom worms Burrowing into tombs The price of the blade Is […]
What do you do When all your love’s in vain? Tell me, what do you do When […]
I paint on a smile And play the game My make-up is always perfect But never quite the […]
No one is listening, But everyone is talking No one is traveling, But everyone is walking No one […]
There’s nothing left to say There’s nothing left to feel There’s no one left to save There’s no […]
Driving down the poison highway Through the nightmares of my youth: Saccharine poetry, suicidal thoughts; Disastrous experiments with […]
I wasn’t born with a club foot I didn’t fight in Vietnam I didn’t teach at Columbia I […]
John W. Leys 