Ponderable polemics, poetic

WordPress site of poet Mark Lucker

  • Bartender genome

    Sitting alone at a bar downing rows of tequila shots earns you your bar cred griping rights: politics, sports, love, loss, life’s inequities pour-out-your-heart privilege, at the very least knowing, indifferent nod, patronizing smile tacit agreement smirk ‘go for it’ shrug Sitting by yourself at Starbucks’ throwing back espresso shots buys you a hipster buzz… Read more

  • Deliverance

    remembering trumps planned forgetting spontaneity a full house, repression a lowly pair erasing the past is deleting old email, your in-box is empty, but… our eternally modern struggle remains reply or delete? reply or delete? reply or delete reply. delete. indecisive hunt-and-peck via archetypical cartoonish devil on one shoulder angel on the other needing a… Read more

  • Pic-ah-nic bas-ket! (Love is… #161)

    Love is fried chicken you’re never certain – follow the rules of etiquette… …or just dive in, use your fingers savory satisfying finger-lickin’ chew-on-bone yummy, messy heart-healthy artery clogging oh-so-tasty Love is fried chicken but when all is said and done just what do you do with the gnawed on bones? – Mark Lucker Read more

  • No?

    Celebratory nod to the common wiener: happy ground-hog day. Read more

  • (Cozy) Den of Iniquity

    Wither thou goest oh, hibernating rodent? Preach thine prediction! Read more

  • Hats off

    men in top hats hoist a meteorological swami, sans turban Read more

  • Slacker

    Slovenly groundhog stays in bed, Tweets conjecture; masses, pacified Read more

  • Insecurity

    egoless rodent? in the spotlight, checks only where his shadow is Read more

  • Gospel

    roused just to preach; ravenous masses gulp down sermon-from-a-mound Read more

  • February 2

    formally dressed man, bench pressed prognosticator. extol the photo-op Read more