Full-Time Poet

I'm doing poetry
full-time now

I retired
from the welfare
department

thirty years
of food stamps
& failure

now it's poetry
full-time.


Moderation

Don't drink
that 13th beer

tomorrow
there's work

& tomorrow brings
a new thirst.


Dog Dreams

Otis curls like a question
on the livingroom couch

nose to nose I answer:
time for bed.

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