Sonnet 19

My days of carefree joy have clearly ended.
Roaming? Now removed from chartered courses.
Pressing flesh of friends? Not recommended.
I flounder now in fields of unknown forces,
Resenting, sore, that I alone must fend,
Securing food or soap or glove, or mask,
Weary, worn, and nearly at wits end,
Cursing leaders so unfit to task,
Shuttered in this walnut-shell-like room,
Fearing that the worst is yet to come,
Huddled in this woeful fragile womb
Fearing those I love may soon succumb.
But haply I think on thee and then my mood
Elated grows; all holiness renewed.

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"