Quintain Poems by Mike Garofalo
25 Steps and Beyond
The Collected Works of Mike Garofalo
740.
Reading Ted Berrigan's Sonnets
from 1964— a brainy Bore.
Muddled random tiny thoughts
absent of meaningfulness
scattered around on clumsy round floors.
Ideas popping like green popcorn
on the twisted streets of hip New York
pointless lines on pills of speed
running round dead orange olive trees
bizarre concoctions of decoying imagery.
In some ways silly FUN, like listening
to the confused chatter of a drugged insane
Prophet of impossible dry rain
mumbling inanities before the Cisco Kid.
Berrigan clearly not a clear Billy Collins.
741.
Sleepless in Sunset Suburbs
my mind working overtime:
a speeding bike without brakes
a rolling rock tumbling down
a super-alert consciousness drained
a can't-quit-motor speeding on
742.
Iran Bombed into Itself
Listening to the News
about the war in Iran:
Israel demolished the
Shi'a Regime's military, the
USA bombed it's nuclear sites.
I'm not upset to see Iranian
proxies and the Iranian Shi'a
Regime dismantled. Proxy
terrorists like Hamas, Hezbollah,
Levant, Baathists, [Sunni-Isis-Al-Qaeda]
Have openly stated their aims
to terrorize and destroy
Israel, the USA, and other Nations.
Good Riddance!
Likewise, our own Christian Nationalists
Seek to Rule us Secular Woke Folks.
But we don't need or want
More religious zealots In Charge;
Favoring a separation of Church and State,
Religions are often a violent disgrace.
700.
Common Sense
often not so common
and makes no sense—
the least common denominator
of stupidity simplified
Used to justify
magically the dumbest
meanest cruelest acts
useless false opinions
selfish stupidity and lies
Worshiped by self-righteous
solipsists bereft of any sense
of a real world bigger than 'I'.
Full of 'truths' empty of facts,
willing to Kill to keep
their Fictions alive.
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