The Executive Enabler
Working for 18 years
for the best boss ever
a 30-something
hot blonde divorcee
alone in the Big Apple
sent by a headhunter
to a wealthy financier
his team of assistants
lawyers, traders
a masseuse every day
she schedules them
in her private office
in his brownstone
in his home
setting dates, times
travel plans, meals, gifts
girls, young girls
and their friends
her own life suburban
a husband in Connecticut
a baby on the way
a doubled salary to stay
a car, a nanny, a loan
and an NDA the girls
come and go she keeps
arranging payments, visas
flights, schedules
island vacations
very famous men
very young women
she sees nothing
knows nothing
does nothing
says nothing
at her hearing
after the fact.
a fascist is a fascist is a fascist
Night town
white town
deep snow
deep cold
color white
but here we all are
hybrid nation of individual
freedoms blackbooted
stomped and kicked aside
laws, norms, civility
under hard ice feet
glorifying the crush
the masks the heavy arms
bulked up brutality
colorless cruelty
attack dogs clawing
what stands in the way
of a bulldozed morality
while the red rose pools
red red red
on the soft white snow.
The Enigmatic Everybody
I am become an enigma to myself.—St. Augustine
Everybody does what everybody does
with a lunatic’s clarity building
the same billionaire bunkers
on green plastic grass
the same shiny luxury cars
on the Italian stone drive
on the razor’s edge
between boredom and suicide
everybody does what everybody does
the same Mar-a-Lago face
under the same blunt cut
the same slink, sassy shoes
inflated breasts and lips
the muscles maxxed
worked up, injected
the same dark shades hiding
eyes without occupancy
on the razored border
between lived and lost
everybody does what everybody does
same movies, shows, media slop
thoughts and conversations
the endless drive for more
attention, goods, money
talking to itself it is all
anyone can do to be
alive, a self, awake
as the lands burn
as the seas rise
as the species die off
as the planet wobbles
on this razor’s edge
everybody does what everybody does
until they do something else.