Another Ironic Poem
UNTITLED ANGRY PIECE I shadowbox the truth begging for a fight high on inferiority we take our places all made up for the show every word matters flung from my soul abstract boomerangs never returned...
View ArticleA Grand Old Party
MITT ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT I see myself in you dying for release histories to debunk myths we tell ourselves about ourselves we’re out of our minds exchanging information before we crash the TV...
View ArticleDesire: A Poem
LADY FRIEND By C.B. Snoad she finds me guilty beyond belief attachment issues far from lacking says she loves herself more than I care for me a pointed remark at the heart of the matter offers quite a...
View ArticleAnd How Does That Make You Feel?
GENTLE HURRICANES I searched for happiness kept getting a blank page been chasing vapors supple ghosts of former selves my will’s in limbo cursed with good intentions I taste sour even in the sweetest...
View ArticleHaiku Rules
Recently a friend suggested that I try writing haiku. I listened to him. Below are my first four attempts. I’ve adopted my own style, of course, but I’ve kept the basic three-line format. In each of...
View ArticleA Guy’s Guide To Speaking American
A GUY’S GUIDE TO SPEAKING AMERICAN Forget your accent first. Give up your allegiance to all foreign flags and tongues. You must be here legally, not an alien from Mars or Mexico stealing social...
View ArticleArt Therapy
“I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. . .” –William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) There...
View ArticleSeven Years
My dad joked that he’d like to come back to earth as a toll booth because “people would throw money at me all day.” Later this week we’ll reach seven years since he died. Here’s my way of remembering...
View ArticleAnxious For A Refill
Ativan Trip a fragile egg head falls to pieces before a shell-shocked throng unable to keep it together the crackup and me we’re off to Walgreens with the windows down drifting away on an Ativan trip a...
View ArticleA Difficult Piece
Above a Whisper The grass around my father’s grave. To walk on blades I can’t help but feel. Does he see me struggle over sunken markers careful not to wake the dead? I’d like to share the latest....
View ArticlePebble Poem
BLASPHEMY My life is a word on the tip of God’s tongue. I take my father’s name in vain. There’s no reason for my being here beyond expression. My life is a thought ahead of its time each moment...
View ArticleWhen You’re Downtown
UNION STATION We meet one day after a long Chicago winter in the rush of Union Station. She finds me as I am, nervous at a corner table practicing my first impression. I shake her hand, enjoy the way...
View ArticleWriting Is Knowing
BLANK LINES I. The world is a word between thought and expression. The moment just before the silence breaks, a pregnant pause inducing wonder. II. I write with passion, out of impulse. Nothing but...
View ArticleTongue In Cheek
LADIES FIRST There’s no shame inducing floods to quench your thirst My girl holds me under till my face turns blue As for secrets gentlemen prefer ladies spill first A good boy has his cake and eats it...
View ArticleMy World Is Blue
DEADLY SIN BLUES What if I can’t find a girl to wed Maybe there’s no girl for me to wed I’d hate to greet the sunrise Beside myself in an empty bed Like an anxious child I pledge Allegiance to the...
View ArticleCommon Bond
SIMILAR SADNESS I find it hard to leave home And ease into the day Feel like a raging river Told to flow a different way But today I met a clever girl Chronically amiss she cries Behind her sense of...
View ArticlePress The Right Buttons
IPOD CLASSIC As a man I’m a little behind the times. All thumbs figuring her click wheel. If I shuffle right will she sing on the spot? The box came with few instructions. c b snoad 10-27-14
View ArticleAccount For The Sparks
ACCOUNT FOR THE SPARKS Give me your take on steamed broccoli, probiotics, WebMD, how curry stirs the senses. The value behind a humanistic approach. The chance God cares, given all our troubles. Why...
View ArticleRattle Of The Bulge
CODPIECE Billy Bush wonders on live TV if Bieber’s wearing a codpiece in his Calvin Klein underwear shoot. Photoshop maybe? With the naked eye it’s clear. The little shit’s always been a massive dick....
View ArticleScoreless Affair
LITTLE BOY BLUE I don’t see London Don’t see France Just trousers With no access To her underpants If there’s a ring Around her rosy Pocket full of posies She intends To never show me c b snoad 2-27-15
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