A Death at 964 Poplar Lane

A Death at 964 Poplar Lane

by

Kenny A. Chaffin

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(from Prosthetic Amalgams)

It was hard to say how long she’d been in that position. The first responders indicated that rigor mortis was complete and Fox News was blaring from the TV. She had apparently been brain dead for some time.

Ferguson (poem)

Ferguson

It’s about authority without accountability.

It’s about the unacknowledged class structure of America.

It’s about battle lines being drawn between rich and poor haves and have-nots.

It’s about taking cigars from a convenience store by brute force because you can.

It’s about the loss of morals and ethics by all classes.

It’s about entitlement and about everyone being a winner.

Well everyone isn’t a winner, everyone doesn’t have a point, in fact

most of the population is clueless unless you happen to ask about Survivor or

The Voice or those implanted beliefs provided by the endless thirty second spots

because that’s what it’s about.

Kenny A. Chaffin – 8/19/2014

Apple (poem)

Apple

January brings a

solitary apple

that clings in iridescence

to a lonely upper branch.

A desiccated beauty

And why only one?

Squirrels have not touched it

birds have left it be

Poison, profound or pious

I may never know

I’m reconciled to beauty alone

for only crows know truth

Kenny A. Chaffin – 1/8/2013

(from The Poet of Utah Park)

Seeking Solitude

Seeking Solitude

by

Kenny A. Chaffin

All Rights Reserved © 2014 Kenny A. Chaffin

I ask the city to be quiet, but it does not listen.

Out of Touch (poem)

Out of Touch

Can’t afford the price of bread

and coffee is beyond my reach

I like to think of myself as frugal

others might call it miserly.

The Clintons were ‘Flat Broke’

when they left the Oval Office.

If only I were so broke,

I’d celebrate with danish and tea.

Kenny A. Chaffin – 6/27/2014