=STUCK ON REPEAT=

blind grins,
crazy grunts,
munching on the runts,
yes
tomorrow will bring something new
lost keys,
bringing us to our knees
cool stories made with diamonds.
pens
fingers
random drugs
bring the greatest pain
to an exploiting halt
dust boiling under our feet
broken hands reach up from heavy bonds
begging for release
even the bullet rings out in the night
hold your hands up
heads down in the rain
blowing our mind.

oh, child,
don't you cry
it isn't your fault
those who point
frightened fingers
shaking fists
towards the sky.

know not what is really on the winds of fortune
time ticks on
awake from my sleepless nap
we must rush to the barracks
grab the gun
send the children crying
on the run
time tells the stories of old
around and around on the table
the movie skips
stuck on repeat.

Reviews

[snickerdoodle]

striking magnetic poetry lines and imagery, urgency, frustration, sense of desperation.

=STUCK ON REPEAT= poem composition and style remind me of ... Beat poets...and Black Sparrow Press...not just Bukowski, but that genre of poetry, near-haiku, stark, crystalline, bare bones, cut-up poetry style. http://www.blacksparrowbooks.com/index.asp. Black Sparrow poets and the BS hardcover book designss are uniquely memorable. Some of the writers are appealing in complexity within short verses, while others...not so much personally appealing as complex, though esteemed by poetry and writing community. I'd rather go with prose/poetry of Updike, Charles Bukowski, Aram Saroyan, Diane Wakowski and Wanda Coleman than ... Robert Kelly or Clayton Eshleman, all esteemed writers with that press. I also appreciate your poem's style in reminding me of John Fante, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Saroyan, Tobias Wolff, Ward Just, etc. Less flower decor, more flour substance food for thought, emotions, love and loss, relationships, struggles. Elizabeth Tallent also comes to mind. Amazon offers Look Inside for some of these writers; and of course, Google Books. City Lights Books, among others, is receptive to new distinct voices. I would've included John Rechy and Hubert Selby, Jr., except their voices exist on the more raw, angst-ridden, desperate, stream of conscious end of the style spectrum. Poets & Writers (pw.org) has a writer directory, with some citing their publishers, agents.
http://www.citylights.com/publishing/?fa=publishing_manuscripts
--not so literary but with stark literary elements, I think of memoir "Tweak" by Nic Sheff