Absence

I’m moving into my first apartment
I have lists for each room
but each room something is...

before marital savings bond matured
as a then quinquagenarian.

Courtesy gerontologists...

This pain is so loud I feel like I’m supporting a mental crowd .
Frown to frown as my world goes...

And join (singing the words
in the next paragraph) whether alone
in a traffic jam
...

regarding birthday anniversary
wicked candle box event burns bright
for Karl Marx,
who...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most...

and despite remote chance
to channel small medium at large
metamorphosis I may witness...

Mental health of yours truly
heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitor...

Although gainfully unemployed
(fate now finds me receiving
social security disability –...

Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a...

Over the years I had many emotional scars
Over the years I was hurt, I hid it well,
Every...

My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken...

I inconsolably wept a river of sorrow
starkly aware alienated daughter(s)
implacable woe...

You were never meant to have kids.
When your siblings got married you congratulated them, they kept...

Lobbed and unleashed upon the heads
of (yours truly and the missus)
so called selfish "...

IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic, holistic, and...

How tragic is your loss, the concept of knowing who you are
That with the awareness

This...