The Flag’s Proud Boast

A flag knows what it’s flying for.

At half-mast it proclaims

‘I’m the only one worth dying for,

Let the rest go up in flames.’

The Poet on Fire

wearing my delmore schwartz hat

i ezra the typewriter

today I will take no prisoners

no burroughs asked, no kerouacs given

light up a corso

take another slug of bukowski

within stanzas the page

bursts into flames