Now Thou Art Two and Twenty

Now thou art two and twenty my sweet dove,
Thy face and form so fresh and so sublime,
I bear for thee a deep unbounded love,
A love I swear shall last through all of time.

When earth's ephemeral limbs tug at thy flesh
Each passing year, and stretch thy skin too far,
When Time's cruel scepter renders thee less fresh,
When wrinkle, blotch and wart thy visage mar,

When loins once rolling wild with lust grow prim,
When passion's raging fire has long grown cool,
When orbs once bright grow rheumy red and dim,
When thy lips so scarlet drip with drool,

Were thou prune-like, covered o'er with rot,
I'd love thee then as now... well, maybe not.

New Poems

• "Battle Hymn of the Republic, Indeed"
• "Ode to a Banana"
• "Moving on After 1/6"
• "Hug"
• "Map-less Monarchs"
• "I am Such a Rich Man"
• "Beatitude with Attitude"
• "The Cross and the Lynching Tree Rap"
• "The Nudist Nun"
• "Sonnet 19"
• "Reparations Now"
• "Hoping I'm Wrong"
• "Bird Feeder"
• "Pete and Henry"
• "Nero: A Rap for Republicans"
• "Croissant"
• "Mandela"
• "The New Jim Crow"
• "The Wire"
• "Why Socialism?"

From By Heart

• "Ahiti"
• "As Some Fertile Seed"
• "Greed Screed"
• "I Sing the Ass"
• "Lying Lost Among Your Arms"
• "Now Thou Art Two and Twenty"
• "Sweet Smellin Woman"
• "This World"
• "Train Wreck"
• "Truth and Parable"
• "Why This Itch This Yen"
• "You"

Some Earlier Poems

• "Al and Bob"
• "The Lonely Puddle"
• "Ode to a Bagel"
• "The Rose"
• "Sardinia"
• "When Love's Liqueur"

Audio Recordings

• "Abu Ghraib"
• "Things About Kings"