Ponderable polemics, poetic

WordPress site of poet Mark Lucker

August 2019

  • Monitored

    Laying in the hospital ER bed vulnerability incognito machismo mano-a-mano upside-down thoughts what the hell is the co-pay on in-network mortality? Say a prayer, ask a nurse “If you keep me here do I get Jell-O tonight?” Task at hand Q & A “Are you having chest pains?” “No, but I do have a chest.”… Read more

  • Soul Luddites

    Born in the gloamingfirst decade of the Cold War I puzzle over peerssame vintage as Ideclaring superiority for erawe know only from historyfamily, books, movies 1950’s forever! Disdaining new insightfor tried and…true? Truth? The manufactured idyllic spinpost-war, tenuous-peace The Bomb and all it’ssocietal accoutrementsrationalizing or not realizing now isn’t then, vice versa I see the… Read more