Ancient Furs.Mink And Stoat.Moth BallsIn Metal Cans.Secrets.Plans.Pictures.Pledges.Curled AtThe Edges.ScatteredLike Lies.Dead Flies.Waiting For HeirsTo Discard Them.Jewels.Made Of Glass.Gold. Brass. Mirrors.Dust.Yesterday’s Lust.Yesterday’s Gone.In God We Rust.Moth Balls.In Metal Cans.Pills.Plans. Knock Knock.Button Lock. Continue reading Greta’s Closet by Charlie Robert
Tigers.Doing Time.Lockdown.Drop A Dime.Red MeatIn The Cage.Your LifeAs A Sage.TeethAnd Claw.Your LifeAt The Rage.Rhino.On The Horn.Spam.Porn.PeopleHurlingCandy Corn.Snakes.On The Make.On The Take.Schemers.Day Dreamers.Day Drinkers.Head Shrinkers.EveryoneLoves The Zoo.Salted Nuts.Ciggy Butts.Monkeys.Flinging Shit.Missing Spouse.Lion House. Hope We All Get Hit. Continue reading Everyone Loves the Zoo by Charlie Robert
Snow.Wipers.Blow. Vipers.Watch Out ForYesterday’s Snipers.There’s A WolfAt The Door. With A BladeAt His Neck.There’s The TiredAnd The Poor.Blank Check.Lots Of LikesLucky StrikesKeep Your Head In The Game.Downshift.Blue Flame.Party Room.Blow Your Top.Mount Doom.Lollipop.Dead Aunts.On Parade.Your Pants.Gatorade.Your Chance.Passed You By.Kind Words.Lullaby.You’re Making Us Cry SoDon’t ForgetTo Have Your Fun.Don’t Forget Your Killer Gun.Don’t Forget Tupac Your Load.Don’t Forget.They Changed The Code.There’s A Party On Witch Meadow Road.Bring Your Jack.Love Shack. Continue reading There’s A Party on Witch Meadow Road by Charlie Robert
I PledgeAllegiance.To Gross Malfeasance.To Dissolution.Of Constitution.Dictator.Darth Vader.Sure Do MissRuth Bader.(Sure Do WishShe’d Left Us Later)Make Your PlansIf You’re Trans.If You’re BrownHunker Down.Take Good CareOf Your Womb.We Are WatchingYou On Zoom.From The CradleTo The Tomb.Take A Bow.Take A Knee.It’s The LandOf The Free.SpaceXCan You SeeIf There’s RoomEnough For Me? Continue reading A Foretaste of the Feast to Come by Charlie Robert
Rural Route Three.Billboards.Debris.This is God’s Green EarthWhere Hope applied And got denied.Where teenage brides Watch children rideHand-me-down bikes inHand-me-down clothes.Heads down riding fast pastBoarded up houses.Past lives and Past spouses.Windows. Staple-gunned in plastic.Doors. Ripped from hinges.RacoonIn the cupboard.SnakeIn the sink.Sparrows.Scraping the ceilings. Beating their wings in silence. *previously published in The Orchards Poetry Journal Continue reading Kingdom Come by Charlie Robert
Yoga Class.Tights.Ass.Glad We GotOur Senior Pass.(Glad We BroughtSome Extra Cash)NamasteYou Stunning Thing.Let Me SeeYour Luscious Bling.Let Me BeYour Silver Fox.Your Downward Dog’sA Paradox.Still Your Breath.Strike A Pose.Decompress.Decompose.Take Your Time.Mind Your Pace.Your Maker’s OutIn Outer Space.Creating.X-Ray Ting.Speed Dating.At The Kama Sutra Rest HomeAnd Bar. Continue reading Speed Dating at the Kama Sutra Rest Home and Bar by Charlie Robert
Tastes like chicken but like everything else it’s not.The liver is Nagasaki.The lungs Hiroshima or Jesse James andDear Old Death comes to us all butthe quiver is fantastic.Like lips full of bees.Like a bucket of glue and no one but you.Hey Toshi! It’s Number One on the Hit Parade!Who cares that The Deal is about to go down the Crapper.Or that we may have to … Continue reading Don’t Eat the Blowfish by Charlie Robert
There’s A Room In The Back.It’s The One That Prints Jack.The One That’sFront Loaded.The OneSugar Coated.Take The ForkIn The Road.Take Your PainÀ La Mode.Take Your CueFrom Your Gods.Get What’s Due.Play The Odds.There Are Rooms.Boom Boom Rooms.Fancy TombsFull Of Flesh.Fancy Rooms.Fancy Guests.Pray They’re Dark.Pray For Peace.Find Your Self.Seek Release.There Are Rooms.Boom Boom Rooms.Barbed With Lips.Ruby Red.Legs And Hips.Living Dead. Continue reading The Boom Boom Room by Charlie Robert
Free Guns.Amen.Free Will.No Go.Road Kill.Road Show.Play Fast.And Loose.Get Cooked.By Your Goose.Get Goosed.By The Cook.Sucker Punch.Captain Hook.There Are Gods.In The Sky.Captain Crunch.Captain Bligh.GI Joe.Barbie Too.Hardy Boys.Nancy Drew.There Are Guns.On The Street.There Are Guns.Made Of Meat.There Are Guns.Painted Red.There Are Guns.In Your Head.There Are Gods.Posting Likes.Fully Clawed.Out Of Sight.Firing Squad.Do It Right.Please Applaud.Say Goodnight.There Is Love.In The Air.There Is Love.Underwear.There Is Lust.Angel Dust.Take Your Time.Earn Their Trust.News … Continue reading News at Ten by Charlie Robert
Like A Loaded Nun.HotLike Your Cinnabon.Hot.Like The Midnight Heat.Hot.Like A Piece Of Meat.There Are Chances.That We Take.Cheap Romances.That We Fake.There Are Moments.That Are Real.Moments.We Appeal.Hot.Like Our Time On Earth.Hot.Like The Virgin Birth.Hot.Like The Devil’s Coat.Hot.Like The Shit You Smoked.There Are Lessons.That We Learn.Blessings.That We Burn.There Are Angels.That Bite.There Is Darkness.Light. Hot. Continue reading Hot by Charlie Robert
