Geoffrey Gatza is the editor and Publisher of BlazeVOX [books] and the author of eight books of poetry; Secrets of my Prison House is his most recent. Kenmore: Poem Unlimited and Not So Fast Robespierre are now available from Menendez Publishing. HouseCat Kung Fu: Strange Poems for Wild Children is also available from Meritage Press. He lives in Buffalo, NY with his girlfriend and two cats.
WILL SHE RETURN TO DANCING WITH THE STARS
To make it official
I do not think of myself as a home wrecker
The cover that is making headlines
is of me wearing a bunny suit
I have this little baby with me
The house is under construction
I choked up during my speech
I know I will always be welcome here
I was able to give
And kickass somewhere!
What a wonderful world
We had been matched
I thought it was important
We went through all the steps
I want to thank all the moms
Making sure no one knew
we had been married for a year
Taking this day-by-day
before the vultures descend
His mistakes are mistakes he himself must address
The love of my adopted hometown restored my faith
This is how I looked in the security camera
The bouncer let her in for free
I think this was revenge for my awesome hair
THE SANDRA BULLOCK STORY THAT STUNNED US ALL
At the height of all this
The fears turned to joy
Maybe in another lifetime
We can have beads on our birthday
I may be old but I am not dead
I am staying alive
In the golden crayon of choice
As simple as designing new waste
I hear babies cry
You can safely say
The crowd goes wild
Get your tickets today
TEMPUS FIDGET
Poetry expects poets to do their duty
Ex nihlo nihlo fit
The leaves are attacking
we get terribly excited
butter grows in blocks on butter branches
ninety-nine out of one hundred times we get let down
concentrating extraordinarily hard on a miniature desk
It was a hundred quid human drawing
A series of washes in varied gray
A young constable on a bridge with rope
There is only the color of the paper beneath our words
Right to the skies, the clouds adequately describe water
The intense way artists tend to render fatback
It's most interesting and translates into money
A generation later
our investments are not good
My grand-daughter is sick and tired of losing
Her antique writings to something like this
Now is the time
a rainbow sheen
to move your trust.
All that is lacking is audacity and opportunity,
wealth to be poured into a very plain silver cup.