Poetry from Mark Young

Stacked chairs & a regime change

Shirley Temple once said “I’ve 

led three lives,” a phrase not

to be confused with the story

of the FBI agent who joined 

the communists. Is said that

it was the FBI who funded the

U.S. Communist Party because 

there were so many agents 

signed up — 1500 out of 10,000 

at one point — & because they

were actually employed by the

Feds, they regularly paid their

dues. I can’t find anything Miss

Temple had to say about that.

In vain

I am spending my days — & nights —

either reading books, journals, & news-

papers, or watching free-to-air tv plus

everyone of the streaming services we

subscribe to, searching for an ending 

that I can pilfer. Certainly some of the

things I come across set off a certain 

frisson, but the ancillary requirements

tend to negate them as possibilities. As

example, I do not have five centuries

to get myself into the state of being that

is deemed necessary to reach Nirvana.

Meaning I’ll be going to bed hungry 

until the middle of next week at least.

The wars of the Hoecks & the Cabbeljaws

The dead woman appeared un-

harmed. Two young children 

wrapped in plastic were also at 

the home. A recording from the 

driver’s own car was taken into 

protective custody & confirmed 

that the suspect, renowned for 

playing complex women on the 

stage, faces an extortion charge. 

randomized eccentricities

Orbital eccentricities roam the

streets on foggy nights to see 

what the latest fashions displayed 

in shop windows are. But since

Rome wasn’t built in a day, they

are still there the next night, like

cats caught in a blackberry patch.

Late-stage excitation often results.

A line from George Lucas

The term “race records” was coined in 1922.

Policy disputes play on. Energy costs are

a significant concern. It’s my first time in

therapy, & we are very pigeonholed. If you 

don’t fit in that box, then it’s time to flip the

script. Politicians have scapegoated hand-

made artisans for decades. Record labels no

longer view music as a vital creative force 

& offer such shifty deals these days that art-

ists will never be able to make money from 

them. Backing bands are now made to stand, 

remove their headwear, refrain from talking. 

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