After writing the big Substack post about how I became a poet (linked below), I got a nasty leg infection, and couldn't get online for a while. I've been getting to the library to get online for a while the last few days, from the recuperative place I'm in for the time being. As I said in the Substack post, I've written somewhere around 400 to 500 poems in my life. I published about 150 of them, total, in three zines, which came out in 1992, 1996, and 1997. But I lost all of my copies of those zines, and all the handwritten originals, and other copies. I lost ten years worth of my unpublished poetry in a move to North Carolina in 2008. More on that in the next post.
I've written some really stupid poems, some funny poems, some sarcastic poems, a bunch of mushy love poems (in the late 80's, and early 90's), and a lot of pretty decent, philosophical, "what's life all about?" type poems. I don't memorize my poems, in most cases. So most of those 400 to 500 are lost, unless one or more of my poetry zines show up somewhere. There's a few still out there, in a box in a closet or attic, somewhere.
In addition to the few poems in the last several posts, here are links to a few more of the better poems I've written since 2008, when I pretty much stopped writing poetry. These 10 or 15 poems, here and in the previous posts, are all I have left, at this point.
"Love Lies Bleeding" - 2018
"Life: What will you do?" - 2018
"The Douchebag's War Cry"- 2023
"Freaks, Geeks, Dorks, and Weirdos" - 2023
"Ode to the word FUCK" - 2007
(This one is a comedy bit/poem, and I do have it memorized, but have only performed it for a handful of people)
I recently wrote a big post about writing poetry and how I became a poet on my Substack. If that sounds interesting, check it out:
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