Following Elvis into Dark Waters (poem)

Following Elvis into Dark Waters

Because light travels in a straight line

every event, every action, every happening

can be seen, recorded, replayed. We can

watch Donald Trump grabbing pussies. We

can watch him gawking at naked teenagers.

We can see him consulting with Putin, stuffing

his fat face with a Trump Taco Bowl. We can

see him choking, gasping, vomiting on his

mahogany desk, on the New York Times.

Kenny A. Chaffin – 1/26/2017

Status Quo (poem)

Status Quo

Children dying in the hovels of

Appalachia. Dark dead bodies

lying in the streets. Brown desiccated

corpses staked to alkaline hills

in South Dakota. Unemployed

workers wandering the streets like

zombies in an opiate daze. The trickle

never existed Ronald. That was just a

dream some of you had. A dream that

persists. A dream that will not happen.

There is no trickle. There is only a dam.

The dam must be broken. Our country

must be saved.

Kenny A. Chaffin – 1/24/2017

Business (poem)

Business

The Corpse of America lay rotting

in the middle of the road under the

burning noonday sun like roadkill.

Blood, guts and gore strewn from

shoulder to shoulder. It just lay there.

No one would touch it. It was too

dangerous. There were deadly things

inside. Even dead the world feared

what might be unleashed were the body

disturbed so it lay there stinking,

rotting and disappearing. Fading

as the world went about its business.

Kenny A. Chaffin – 1/24/2017

Drunken Indian (poem)

Drunken Indian

When I was a drunken Indian

I screamed at the White Man

for the atrocities, the smallpox

the theft of our land, the Trail of Tears

the casinos, the degradation and shit.

When I sobered up it was worse.

Kenny A. Chaffin – 1/14/2017

New issue of Star*Line is out and includes one by me

The latest issue of Star*Line from the Science Fiction Poetry Association is out. It includes my poem

The Consequences of Long-Term Furniture Ownership.

Enjoy!

http://sfpoetry.com/sl/issues/starline40.1.html

"Oxygen" and "The Preservation of Life" published at Speculative 66

Speculative 66 is a web publication of 66 word stories published on the 6th of each month.

This month includes my stories "Oxygen" and "The Preservation of Life" among other great stories.

http://speculative66.weebly.com/current-issue.html

Check out the back issues as well. Some great stuff if you enjoy microfiction.

Enjoy!

The Distances Involved

Merry Christmas Everyone!

My story The Distances Involved is published today at 365 Tomorrows.

The Distances Involved
by Kenny A. Chaffin

“What is it you would want to know?” the synthesized voice asked. Johnson scanned the cryptic and stonewall faces assembled around him and the computer screen before typing. “Who are you? Where are you from? How do we know this is not some prank, some hacker?”

“You know where your antennas are pointed. You know the region we are from.”
....

http://365tomorrows.com/2016/12/25/the-distances-involved/

Enjoy!