Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Ode to a boot licker

It’s said you lick the boot
dreaming it’ll one day house your foot
But I think this is not it
I believe you like the hoof and soot
I think you love the boot
an honor to be amongst the horde
keeping the leather polished


You may dream of being the strongman
even cosplaying, practicing his walk,
the boisterous way he talks
but you’re satisfied
to be under such a foot
to hold up daddy
to serve

This association seems enough for you
seems it’s love to you
licking this mighty boot
is better than the humiliation
of being an equal
to those who are so pathetic as to be equals
to one who is sadly, inexcusably, merely you

Ice

Ice killed someone again today

I’m bagging groceries when a customer

stops to say

Ice shot someone

again

today


He was a US citizen

a nurse

he had a gun

Details trickle in

Ice shot him

dead in the street


I place the glass jars in the bag

Then the eggs

leafy greens

and potato chips on top

We live our lives

Wanting to do more

than just wait for it to stop


Masked thugs killed a poet

They killed a nurse

I take my break

and wait

I wait

For it go on

To get worse


I wait

for Ice killed someone again today

to become just another thing we say

How about that fog

Did you catch the big game

Looks like another school shooting

And Ice

Killed

Someone

Again

Today

Friday, January 09, 2026

Giving Up

 I've given up on my country

And, honestly, also on my life, yeah

But I'll keep punching, kicking, swinging blind

Just because I know what's right, yeah


And whether we, and I, pull out o' this spiral 

or crash and burn at last, yeah

I'll never let it be said that I didn't stand and

 put up a fucking fight, yeah

Saturday, January 03, 2026

Old

It's not that I mind getting older

It's just I wasn't finished being young 

I don't want to live forever

Just long enough to get it right


Resoltion

 I'll read Burns this year

And celebrate his birth 

To stay connected to my mother

Whose father, My grandfather

Was a Scott


I'll make vegan haggis

Eat neep and tatties

While listening to the pipes

Remembering I'm the grandson

of a Coyle

Recipe

 Books of poetry 

Collections of verse

Gathered like ingredients 

Inspirational seasoning

In hopes of creating

A flavor never yet tasted