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Poetry from P to S

paris hotel

rising stars
in paris hotel
nineteen fifty-nine
leslie caron
at front desk
truman capote
in lobby

he asks me
to his room
in bed i allow him
to hug me
on walk i say
he is friend
even my analyst

return alone
to hotel
caron trips and falls
into my arms
i’m too old for this
Picture
Truman Capote in 1959
​
​dream dictionary
says truman is me
my own best
friend and counselor

but maybe dream
is less about me
and more about me
telling you
there are gays
in heaven
the movie set
​of our dreams
partition

americans
becoming
indians
nineteen
forty-seven

muslims
pull away
from hindu
dominance

heartland
and dixie
pull away
from
liberal elite
Picture

​​americans
on warpath
force choice
red or blue
no purple reign

purge for purity
sharp boundaries
cut and maim

violent
partition
migration
of millions
peace

less squid game
more squidward
and spongebob

fewer terminators
more terms
of endearment

every
national anthem
all you need
​is love
​performers

took off
gray flannel suit
put on
clown suit

lost careers
found gigs
off the assembly line
on the assembly of lies

failed marriages
drugs and liquor
once the life
of struggling actors

becoming
​the norm

for rest of us
quantum history

spooky actions
over time and space
overseen by holy spook
​
divine design
in lincoln-kennedy
entanglement

bullets in heads
next to wives
lincoln in ford's theater
kennedy in lincoln
made by ford

elected 1860 and 1960
vice presidents johnson
​
assassin fleeing from
theater to warehouse
assassin fleeing from
​warehouse to theater

theater play 
our american cousin
becomes
irish nickname
for kennedy

the tall target
kennedy finds plot
​against lincoln
is plot against him

kennedy alive is hawk
over vietnam
unclear war becomes
nuclear war but
assassin clips his wings

culture interrupted
strangelove changed
the doctor delayed
as real time lord
changes the story
quid pro quo

designated survivor
hero wife on phone
this is not a quid pro quo
my ears perk up
at impeachment words

state of the union address
explosion
rush to praise
speech to rip
unity in rubble
Picture
Virgin of Guadalupe

​rose tree

dream of rose tree
abundant branches
cut white roses for lady

ask to graft
my flower on branch
our lady says yes
​
echo of guadalupe
my beliefs will bloom
among catholics
roswell
​

roswell myth
flying saucer crashes
alien autopsy
myth is metaphor
for truth

soul falls
from heaven
and dies

coroner clue
location location
location

new mexico
birthplace
of atomic bomb
man-made sun

earth goddess
takes body
sun god
takes soul

man plays god
nuclear sun
kills souls in
hiroshima
nagasaki

hitler
burned bodies
but truman
burned souls
​​save to cloud

body is hardware
mind is software
soul is website

url
uplifting
righteous
life

body and mind
always in mud
soul never
reaches cloud

devil in
the malware
scary story

cannabis
cannibals
cryptocurrency
tales from the crypt

playing
russian roulette
with covid mutants

ghost guns
boo boo
bang bang

let’s hide behind
the oath keeper
chainsaws
shrinking violet

i got the

violet blues

what happened
to violet
pushed out
by purple

blame prince
purple rain
blame pundits
purple states

color of the year
magenta
another
slap in the face

stop the
violence
against
violet
​
i demand
inclusion
​for violet
not
purple of color
​soft opening

let’s do a soft opening
a test run
see how we get on
and get on
in the bedroom

then I’ll sleep on it
baby baby
let me sleep on it

she says
i don’t want meat loaf
i want steak
spiked orbs

event horizon
deepwater horizon

british production
british petroleum
deep space hell
deep ocean hell

event
coast guard patches
​deepwater
coast guard rescue
Picture
BP logo, Event Horizon gravity drive

​​gravity drive oil slick
gravity drive spiked orb
bp logo spiked orb
​
promise of pain
for sins against sea
virus spiked orb
suez canal

fat ship
serving
fat living
clogs artery
of capitalism

evergreen
​nevergreen
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Images  Truman Capote, public domain; BP logo ® British Petroleum, fair use; Virgin of Guadalupe, 1824, Isidro Escamilla, public domain; Event Horizon © Paramount Pictures, fair use
​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. The author lives in Vacaville, California. E-mail: rsurbanek@mail.com
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