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Poetry from D to F

dark goddess

b-1 gallery nagel
goddess on wall
larger than life
deathly white face
daughter of my eye
Picture
​awakened by
glowing clock
sekhmet image
black and bulging

cave fire light
stick figures
fighting on wall
incited by goddess
death valley

gotta burn rubber
gotta burn gas
gotta get to death valley

gotta see
the record i broke
burning the planet
denial

climate change
deniers
holocaust
deniers

nine eleven
deniers
covid
deniers

all in same boat
submersible
explores
depths of denial
​
joins titanic
at bottom of sea
doc martin

a gaggle
of giggling girls

the dog
that wants in

do you have
an appointment?

next patient
louisa is patient

large man
fat chance

mrs. tishell
​pain in the neck

bloody fools
blood! look away

get my bag
call the hospital
Picture
edgar allen poe

poe perverse
resurrection
clawed out of grave
never left cemetery
no redemption yet
for slave nation

mother and wife
died giving birth
to monsters in
manger

gold scarab
​crazed ape
create detectives

always in shadow
of coming war
and greater god
emancipator
the end

​history
is his story
all stories
must come
to an end

all the songs
have been sung
all the scenes
have been seen

extinction
in the air
dinosaurs
everywhere

not wanting
children
childhood’s end
ascension

begins
with caldera
smoke and fire
ends with
ninth circle
of hell

last to leave
not in my
lifetime
but soon enough

numbers add
to nine and eleven
twenty seventy-two
​falcon

pregnant mother on
angel city red car
won’t sell baby
no child of privilege

homosexual father
nuclear family
meltdown

great uniter
at age four
put together
usa puzzle
in record time

child in sandbox
builds mountain with
grooves for marbles
mind meld to disney
bobsled ride

ns savannah model
nuclear power ideas
in my barque of ra

deathly ill at twelve
kidney test catheter
prelude to ra power 

in college change
from physics to
writing like
satanic rushdie

like muhammad
long relationship
with older woman
maybe mahdi

desert storm
twin peaks trigger
synchronicity
and spirit fever

first car ford falcon
bought from black man
first house peregrine way
bought from black man

new black tax man
falcons on wall
repeating ancient
deals with nubians

first time open
going within
tao of physics
falcons on
facing pages

mother hathor
cow goddess
born in cowboy state
bring to vacaville
vaca is cow

mystery bladder
affliction
month of catheter
stream of blood

learn divinity
ra has falcon head
created mind god
from penis blood

my dream barque
in flooded town
people fish
for meanings in
ocean of dreams

discover but lose
fifteen inch
staff of ra
falcon great ruler

mother taken
in falcon transport
leaves me tercel

korean lady friend
passes away
passes me
to relatives

my broken finger
mirrors
jin broken finger
handing ra power
from west to east
falling sun

reagan
morning in america
trump
afternoon in america

falling sun harsh
and unforgiving
burns away
filth and 
wretched excess

when sun touches
earth
america dies

phoenix drought
no rising
from ashes
fire monkey

​chinese fire monkey
strong and active
unreliable
thinks the unthinkable
destroys tradition
Picture
​paired well
in twenty sixteen
with fire dog trump
natural leader
unbending will

media added
infantile act
big sulking baby

all three merged
in super bowl freak
puppy monkey baby
puppy monkey baby
freedom

freedom
to kill
life in the womb

freedom
to loot
and call it reparations

freedom
to get high
and live on the street

gives others
freedom
​to choose fascism
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Images  ​Detail from B-1 Gallery by Patrick Nagel, fair use; Edgar Allen Poe, 1849, public domain; Head of Cebus vellerosus from The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, 1875, public domain
​Robert Urbanek grew up in Southern California and earned a BA in journalism from California State University, Long Beach, in 1973. He has more than two decades of experience as a writer and editor for community newspapers and medical and legal-related publications, which included several years each with the National Notary Association, The Doctors' Company and CCH Incorporated. Copyright © Robert Urbanek.
 
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