Boredom, Vice, and Poverty: Poems

These are early poems of the author of the Poems & Prayers Substack. If you love these, you will love what comes next. Subscribe here: Poems and Prayers

If you love artists who are chameleons of time, these poems of the 90's & 00's will satisfy. They echo the accelerating channel-switching prose of the television age, the nostalgic lookback of the turn of the century, and the settling for all verse since that takes the Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern all.

from Death Starts:

O the rabbits are gnawing at the stalks. Rats

Haunt the crawlspaces. Roaches swarm in cupboards.

He was bleaching on Maui when his cell buzzed.

Now Death's snowed under, island shirt on a peg,

And not happy: he's lost his room deposit.