My Church
Our loose congregation
of gratuitous freaks and sinners
convenes every Thursday Eve
in a condemned tavern
deep in the urban wilderness
Prior to the evening’s festivities
the Minister of Quasi Salvation
will creatively conduct
our version of vesper services
These rites will fit nicely
as a spiritual condom
to pre absolve
our scheduled debauchery
and protect we marginal souls
from scary eternal damnation
As an extra layer of pious protection
on Saturday for a slight fee
the man of the tattered cloth
will offer those soiled pilgrims
who went below and beyond
a very special blanket confession
to catch all those slippery transgressions
that may have fallen
between the pre absolution cracks
Tilt
The gun sounds
The event is done
The score is unknown
Meet me on the post game
We’ll have a destructive discussion
For you see
all my excuses are custom made
None of this off the rack crap
Every alibi exquisitely crafted
to neatly fit my current needs
For my actions I offer no apologies
Instead I’ll dazzle your ass
with an impassioned defense of me
And if you buy my bullshit bushel
of self serving truth
the consequences are all on you
Hooray for Us
I do so wish
we legions of misfits
would dismiss this fixation
with trying to fit in
I do so wish we would cease
tearing each other down
by standing on the bone pile
to be better seen
by our false idols
Always desperately seeking validation
from this shallow judgmental
cookie cutter society
I do so wish
we misfits could one day see
that we are the flawed majority
Celebrate our variances
that make this diverse tapestry
forever interesting
She Genius
Black lace vixen
A relationship magician
Blonde hair temptress
slithers into the room
all shiny and smooth
Beware those dangerous curves
Every sensuous crevice
is strategically accentuated
Being super sexy ain’t no accident
People look at her
and assume
she’s dull of wit
but
she’s got a PHDin the male of the species
Always uses the right bait
when casting her lure
HERE THEY COME
She demands all the perks
once they get hooked
The boys keep giving
Supply and demand
compounded daily
in her bank account
No dumb blonde is she
New Plan
Be it self resolved
blame will no longer be
assigned by me
on people or institutions
that may create personal adversity
since complaints do not change
the harsh realities
that we all gotta deal with daily
when life fails to go as planned
Gonna play every hand that is dealt
utilizing a rational
logical best option strategy
that precludes whiny self pity
From here on in
if I’m gonna win
I gotta proceed
with unbridled positivity
and faith in myself
g_d damn it
Holster your Hossanas
No need to pray for me
I got God covered
The Supreme and I
reached a late night accord
over cocktails
where I locked in future grace
in exchange for my foregoing
to ever spew
the invective GOD DAMN again
as he mumbled something
about blasphemy
and my dangling by a thread
eternal soul
Who knew the Lord
took our frickin words
so god damn literally?
Obstructed View
Can’t get to your destination
when lacking adequate navigation
Stand on mountaintop high
to achieve proper elevation
For once view the forest
OVER the trees
The panorama is yours to see
in it’s glorious entirety
Way beyond the rigid
self made two dimensional
landscape boundary lies
our oft limited vision
gets imprisoned by
Boomer Tuner
Here I go again
memory tripping
A common escape route
of my gray demographic
Driving through time zones
to nowhere in particular
calibrating radio knobs
for decent FM reception
seeking clear tune connection
And yet
all I got was a weird mix
of static and station overlap
that changed constantly
with each mile post traversed
as I drifted in and out
of antenna range
As audio chaotic as this
sound blender may have seemed
there was a random beauty
to this discordant symphony
and the required patience
to participate in it
Today my vehicular
audio system
is satellite based
guaranteeing surround sound
Dolby Stereo perfection
no matter where I may be globally
I know this is digital progress
Blessed be the technology
of the ease of use 21st Century
but to tube and diode
based dinosaurs like me
there is something to be said
for the glorious imperfections
of scratchy old fashioned
manually adjusted
radio wave transmissions
The Missing Wheel
Here at Cafe Reverse
dessert comes first
Then the entree is served
and the appetizer closes the meal
On upside down plates
the raw food is dispatched
uncooked and unwrapped
by a pissed off staff
comprised of native born
American citizens
who feel these low end jobs
are
beneath
them
Perhaps immigrants
derided as illegal aliens
by those
of a prejudiced bent
who perform so many
thankless tasks
for subterranean wages
in our service economy
will not be appreciated fully
until their hard working asses
are gone permanently
Take Out the Trash
The great reconciliation will come
when both ends of the spectrum
and scared shitless moderates
can finally reach agreement
that their contingent is imperfect
When even the crazed
fire breathing zealots
can no longer stomach
or desperately rationalize
some of the sleazes on their side
The painful self confession
that they have team members
who are so morally deficient
and beyond redemption
they need to be condemned
BY THEM
Even if these cretins
share opinion positions
that advance the Cause
There has to be
a bad behavior Rubicon
good people simply can not cross
The driving force
of our much needed unification
will be the shared acceptance
that character matters once again
stgreenie 
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