palm trees in a junk yard |
and just like fante, i am
unable to think of a word
to say about the palm trees
that line
the side walks
of the streets in the ghettos of long beach.
nothing even about the pair
that i had ...
Posted by r.k.wallace on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:30:00 PST |
this river |
it lies;
it never really shows anything real,
because it is vain
in what it reflects
back to us,
and that's what we can't handle.
we cant bare the fact
the moon might not really ...
Posted by r.k.wallace on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:15:00 PST |
Part of a sqeuence called 'art of disappearance' |
(art)reality
(rrt)aeality
(ret)arality
(rea)artlity
(real)artity
(reali)artty
(realit)arty
(reality)art
(realitya)rt
(realityar)t
(realityart)
(realityar)
(realitya)
(reality)
(realit)
(reali)
(real)
...
Posted by r.k.wallace on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:35:00 PST |
cannibalism |
dear reader, now that i
have lured you into taking a
look at this,
please watch
carefully now
how the poem begins
to eat itself,
feeding back
off each line,
until all that is left to say is
nothi...
Posted by r.k.wallace on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:07:00 PST |
Deat by nostalgia |
and so we dig
to try and find what it is we are
looking for, those
bare bones of nothingness,
those fleshless remains we have already
stripped and stripped again,
until all that is left is n...
Posted by r.k.wallace on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:57:00 PST |
a conspiracy theory |
after visiting
'the nugget,' a student
bar on the campus of
cal state university, long beach,
i decided at first to write
a poem,
which was
originally
meant to be
about a p...
Posted by r.k.wallace on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:19:00 PST |
the spirit of terrorism |
even the sun
will eventually
kill us
when it can
no longer
tolerate
the weight of its owncritical mass....
Posted by r.k.wallace on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:13:00 PST |
cockroach |
did bukowski not warn us about
how he could
only delay
their eventual takeover?
now i feel can't even write this
poem
because the little bastards are
everywhere i
...
Posted by r.k.wallace on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:32:00 PST |
