The Role Of The Poet In The Age Of Disbelief

it's like being Ted Kennedy
it’s the doldrums followed by shitstorms of
being Ted Kennedy
it's the
Is of being Ted Kennedy

wanting to be John or Robert
preferring the Was
for having had the Jackness or Bobbiness

I would take the Oswalds, the Rubies, and the Sirhans
and the Sirhans
and so would Ted


Elegy For The Motorcycle Cop Who Gets Vaporized
At The Beginning Of Repo Man

Perhaps most problematic
is the way that your boots
just stood there after the rest of you
had combusted;

each standing as a little monument—
two cenotaphs in black patent leather
that sparked only cackling
and abject

ambivalence.

If but some vengeful god would call to me


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