Ponderable polemics, poetic

WordPress site of poet Mark Lucker

political poetry

  • Talking ‘bout my generation (in less than complimentary ways)

    My generation has failed this country How we emerged from the sixtiescame of age inthe seventies morphed as a wholefrom justice-seekingto profit makingabove all by holding tight to old waysold men‘leading’ us This is what has gotten us to where we are nowWe should have jettisoned them all those old men likethe dried, used upold Read more

  • Broadsides

    I once asked God for a sign needing more than spiritual Burma-Shave cardboard placards stapled to raw, rough pine sticks Ah, but I am not advertising my tag-board always blankly devoid of political hate hackneyed slogans five-ninety-nine pizza specials! buy your gold for more! I am not here to direct others to event parking or partake Read more

  • Neophyting

    Self-ostracized scorned self-loathing as blood-sport worthy, not worthy; worthy, not worthy – worthy…not saying pseudo-suicide by self righteous indignation how dare you look at yourself in the mirror, mirror on the walls you build keep people in, out, at bay, and shrilly proclaim I am Somebody! I am Somebody! I am somebody needs to take Read more