Good Night, Officer White 

Go to sleep now, little baby boy

are you tired, is your gun tired too

were you shooting negroes again today?

We’ll tuck you in,
there will be 
dead heavy horseshoes 

on your nightmares. 

Nighty night you

pretty little pink

ball of naughty. 

Your place, or mine?

A zoo

is a nasty fucking cheap shot   

to the animals. But at least

they don’t have to buy tickets 

and hot dogs to 
be there. 

The Outlaw of Physics

Pull up sea anchor

Moon above, then sun - then all the best 

Over the next crest! 

Get even, like this 

After your parents fuck your brain waves

first thing to do is

take care of yourself.

A little wit.

A little spit.

Lightning crack 

and crack of the whip,

a good night’s sleep

some magic in your pillow slip. 

Take care of yourself

to the end of your days 

and way past theirs. 

Steal the last life boat. 

One dirty mother 

My mother made love to someone in 1956 
but nine months later she made war,

on me. 

She bore me out and pulled a gun on me

right there in the bassinet
and I’m still running. 

But I’ll get her. 

I’ve got her in my psychological
                                                                        sights.

Do anything 

Poor people hate the summer.
Anyway, I did. 

Rich, or richer people

have camps and lakes, and the beach; 

green and blue and sand and sunshine.

We had the flat-roof slum

surrounded by parking lots;

cement gray and toy-plastic orange.

Radio commercials splash and ricochet 
out of the concrete, yellow swimming pool 

old reruns and laugh tracks on TV always, 
muffled some by the cockroach mardi gras 
scratching greasy in the walls.

Do anything 

to get to the green and the blue 
and the sky.

And anything - everything - else. 

Ireland becomes you, Pee Wee Herman! 

The Vatican looks over at Ireland  

- both foggy, one suddenly clear -

sees that Ireland has finally allowed

the legality, and noticed the humanity

beauty, loveliness, lovability and FUN 

of gay marriage, and says:

THAT WAS A DEFEAT FOR HUMANITY.

Ireland looks back and says, 
                                   I know you are but what am I?!!