Another Revolt, The End of Song, No More
My latest “haiku” had the honor of being published in the Poets Basement section of “Counterpunch,” a wonderful Left wing publication.
Dennis Leroy Kangalee
The Passion of an Outsider Artist
Tag Archives: resignation
And When They Cut Him Open
there was a deer found inside the snake
its bones bellowing to be set free.
in this ocean, on this side of the universe
where truth runs thin
like oxygenated blood thru the
frame of a well endowed
set of eyes that had seen it all
and even remembered when it was
not luxury to be alive,
but a simple matter of fact, and
on a good day –
a blessing
heat was all he asked for.
Heat and a good night’s sleep.
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A Loser Can Surely Find Time For Love
Before that I thought I was just another waking asphalt animal perched on his shaky brick-limb trying to do what it is that rats do to stay alive.
The rats are the true underground.
Hamptons in Harlem.
Condos creeping.
My belly is torn asunder.
They’ve pulled apart the letters of alphabet city.
Don’t mind me–it’s just my feet are getting wet and I never realized I could swim. The Mets are Citibank pets in steel cages.
Plastic surgeons from the west coast have brought their palm trees with them, they’ll be importing the rest of the emptiness later.
They’re sending me to the outbacks, the caves in the dunes where books meet man and clean hands are an ideal to achieve.
Losers
Like Loners
Make the
Best
Lovers.
They have so much to give.
They don’t need me here. Give me my apocalypse and ship me out soon.
I am not sure how long I can carry this battery.
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originally published in the Lower East Side BOOG City poetry journal, Summer 2012
& included in the chapbook “Lying Meat”
Dennis Leroy Kangalee 