goodbye to a liver

(by Jack Levine via)

robots are calling me
in the midst of my first person shooter game

why should i stop
at playing at killing
just because a robot got my number

is there anything to buy
i haven't bought already
in this end of the world mad splurge

do you want to pretend
you want my mere opinion
for something that's long been decided

by the source of the stupid robot calls
& the owners
of my first person human-shooting game

Portrait of a Sufi artist.

"And poets evermore are scant of gold,
And if they find a piece behind the door,
It turns by sunset to a withered leaf."

--Aurora Leigh