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WELL REHEARSED SPONTANEITY

Well rehearsed spontaneity raucous call and response preconceived in a boardroom the parrots echo the clichés sheep cleverly herded into mass orgy of conformity https://www.postpoems.org/authors/georgeschaefer/poem/1100486

CLEAR PATHWAY HOME

Quietly nursing a beer anxiously awaiting a cup of chili listening to two young ladies that somehow lost their way— couldn’t rent a car couldn’t get a hotel, missed a concert, had a 5 AM flight a lot of porno flicks start out like that but I’m not qualified to direct or star I comeContinue reading “CLEAR PATHWAY HOME”

YOU REALLY SHOULD KNOW BETTER

You’re 57 years old You really should know better (and you do know better) but knobbly knees you go with the flow and succumb to darker angels You are old enough You really do know better yet still you make the call a shot of Rock and Rye Original Jacquins experiments in liquor and theContinue reading “YOU REALLY SHOULD KNOW BETTER”

PART OF THE PROBLEM

so I descend wishing to traverse time Hemmingway drank here with a cast of ne’er do wells, pirates and twisted characters but the color and flavor altered and diminished by tourists eyes glued to hand held devices complaints about hotel pillows irreparably destroy the mood I’m drinking craft beer out of a souvenir plastic cupContinue reading “PART OF THE PROBLEM”

ZOOMIES WITHOUT COFFEE

A moment of repose eying coffee mug with imploring glance but crazy canine does zoomies without coffee don’t need more stimulation https://www.postpoems.org/authors/georgeschaefer/poem/1125389

THE ELECTRIC JIMMY SWAGGART ACID TEST

It can be really intense when you take acid and I’m not talking about fake shit. I mean reality and real intensity. There was one time when I dosed with a few friends. It was good liquid about 250 mikes a hit. I indulged in two hits. We were restless so someone go the bright idea to cruise overContinue reading “THE ELECTRIC JIMMY SWAGGART ACID TEST”

TEMP WORKER

I guess nobody likes temp workers they take up space take up jobs often shit jobs no one else wants like undocumented fruit pickers the temp worker is pariah par excellence slipping in earning a few bucks and disappearing before learning any names or faces This one time, not at band camp, I was aContinue reading “TEMP WORKER”

PAKISTAN JOE

I was 16 years old and in all probability working illegally. I had taken a gig as a busboy at a local diner. I was working the graveyard shift from midnight to 5:00am on weekends. After hour gig bussing tables of the drunks virgin cherry popped I befriended the dishwasher. He told me everyone called him Pakistan Joe. HeContinue reading “PAKISTAN JOE”

DELIRIOUS LIGHTNING

The music at the Peach Festival was always unreal. Every band brings their A game and you just expect magic. The Claypool Lennon Delirium was on fire. But it was a dark overcast day. The clouds kept getting darker as the music progressed. Off in the distance, you could see bolts of lightning flashing. Maybe it was just the acid butContinue reading “DELIRIOUS LIGHTNING”

CRIMSON WHITE AND INDIGO

It was a hot fucking day in July. We were young and gloriously naïve. The Grateful Dead were set to pack JFK for a jubilant celebration. Shakedown Street was shaking as all the Deadheads shopped for tie dyed t-shirts and kind grilled cheese sandwiches. JFK was an old decaying stadium and one could envision gladiators in leather helmets goingContinue reading “CRIMSON WHITE AND INDIGO”