Syndication

http://charlespoet.podomatic.com/entry/2016-08-03T01_11_15-07_00

Watching Columbo and playing with myself

There’s something about Peter Falk that gets me all hot and bothered

Maybe it’s the cut of his jib and the way he wears his magical raincoat

Though actually I believe it has more to do with how he always has

One more thing to ask to crack the crime and put the guilty party behind bars

Watching Kojak and abstaining from the pleasure of pleasuring myself

There’s something about Telly Savalas that keeps me coming back for more

I believe it’s the cool way he does everything including sucking on a lollipop

When watching him I feel like he’s got the situation handled and I’m in good hands

And let’s not forget his voice as smooth as silk and as persuasive as rolling thunder

Listening to Nick Cave and wishing I was dead

I don’t mean it or maybe I do

I don’t fucking know

I’ve never done heroin, but if I ever did I’d want to do it with Nick Cave

Swallow the bad seeds and drink down the infected blood and never forget you are one of the chosen and completely flame retardant

Watching all of those bad poets up on that sequined stage reading their God awful Ginsberg-doppelganger poetry and wishing I could light a match and burn

I turn on the television like every other stupid American when there’s nothing better to do and even FB refuses to be my friend

Salvation these days is more channels than we’d ever be able to watch in a lifetime because don’t you know less is more and I guess if you’re not a refugee you’re one of the lucky ones

I love when people tell me they prefer my poetry with shorter lines like my longer stuff just misses the mark and will never end up properly syndicated.

Charles Cicirella

7/31/16

Creaky Little Bones

http://charlespoet.podomatic.com/entry/2016-07-20T17_15_13-07_00

What’s the purpose of all this writing?

Does it mean anything?

I mean does it mean anything to anyone other than myself and does that even matter?

I stood up and my little bones creaked and it made me feel old and it made me feel human.

I’m not a super hero. In fact these days I’m not even God as my martyr complex goes the way of the Loch Ness Monster and Al Capone’s vault.

I saw Geraldo Rivera at Passover a few years back. I said hello because I’ve always been drawn to pseudo celebrities and their insufferable politics.

What’s the purpose of all these cave drawings?

Do they have any purpose?

I mean do they have a purpose to more than just the cave dwellers who are willing to risk their lives spelunking in the dark after hours?

I stood up and my little bones creaked in protest as I attempted to walk into the kitchen for a quick bite.

I’m not a monster. In fact these days even being called the spawn of Satan doesn’t fit me like it once possibly did.

I’m growing older as I consider throwing in the towel and forgetting about all of these high minded ideals as the status fucking quo calls out to me like a death sentence from a bygone era.

Charles Cicirella

7/18/16

Hana

http://charlespoet.podomatic.com/entry/2016-07-20T15_22_30-07_00

Haven’t met her yet

But I really like her mother

And I know poetic apples

Don’t fall too far from their

Poetic roots.

We expound upon whatever

There is around us attempting

To bring us down or alter our

True north because unconditional

Love doesn’t always wipe away the

Tears, remorse or ridicule.

And I was lost in translation before

I accepted the cost for doing no more

Business and going it completely alone

Because continually lying to myself was

Forcing me to be someone I was not.

Hanna is a trailblazer and I know this

To be true because the ether ruminates

Through each and everyone of us at the

Speed of light and leaves no room for

Mistaken identities or lost causes.

Haven’t met her yet

In fact I’m even too afraid to friend her

On FB because I don’t want to send the

Wrong message in these politically correct

Times where no one any longer expresses

Their true feelings because they’re afraid of

Blowback and all the bullshit going along

With it.

Charles Cicirella

7/19/16