The Company of Misery
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

I am the shadow you cannot see
an expression of a dark cloud
sunny side up and humor
...

Wake the Dead
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

The emotional wheels are spinning,
look at the balance in the weeble wobble.
The gyroscopic confidence...

Pain Killer
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

All of that glitter and gold,
blue skies and sunshine,
happiness murdering the pain.

It’s...

The Wanderer

Translated by W. R Sims

Recited by Charles Bryant

Anglo-Saxon poetry can often be fairly maudlin. I have taken on when reading 'The...

Reid Baer is Fat and Stupid
By Reid Baer

Once upon a time a thin man told me I was
funny whether I meant to be or not that I
was a kind of jolly fellow he said...

Poets and Vampires
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

I find myself drinking deep
the blood of empathy.

Wounded humanity in my arms.
I...

The Red Book
By Reid Baer

I’m unable to keep pace with my own terms or
thoughts flying ahead instead of staying behind

this perturbed brain easily enough...

Pennies and Bones
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

Pennies for scrap and junk yard bones
burnished copper accolades heaped on yellowed moans.
Counting...

Star Song
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

What of the empathy of the sun
to gaze across the universe
and sing to other stars.

We are...