Poems About: CHICAGO

Butterflies
Are not to be captured
In a net or in a poem. read more »

It's Saturday Night Live.....

I mean come on. It’s Chicago’s South side.
Admittedly, there is no evidence of that, read more »

caregiver leaving again

The children of Punta
Sing you a sad song read more »

i was not yet 22
when i walked around
with a bottle of sin
in my long black wool coat read more »

(To: Yelena Anatolyevna Shakhovtseva, Russia)


Was it paradise or hell, read more »

(To: Oyinade Ogunba, Nigeria)


The sky here has no windows read more »

There comes
Moment like this
To the man
That makes him quiet read more »

Maple Marble your fine overtones,
like Marshall Fields in Chicago
where you wrote an essay of political analogy,
and became The Pro, read more »

The Beach Boys had their Kokomo
The Beatles, Drive My Car
Sinatra loves Chicago
Billie Joel's Just The Way You Are read more »

Hillary what great ambition
She wanted to be POTUS of the nation
She dreamed to be president
She ran grueling campaign read more »

When
a skunk dies by violence
a bad smell infects the land.
When a cow dies by violence read more »

Wide-gaping gaps
between moral intransigence that’s sterile
and intelligence, which good scholars abhor
but fanatics totally ignore, read more »