Friday, May 20, 2022
The Fat Imp
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Hidden Baggage
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Going Nuts
Thursday, May 5, 2022
The Treaty
Sunday, April 10, 2022
The Well
Thursday, March 10, 2022
The Adventures of President Gluppot
The Adventures of President Gluppot
President Gluppot sends his greetings
by chance of all these meetings
from the nation of Retainia.
Another war, another mania.
“I'm happy you have joined us,
You're in a deep, purloining fuss.”
This has all happened much before
like a knock on an ocher door.
“You can stay as long as you like,”
As he casually stabs all with a pike.
So begins another sticky situation
in the somewhere of another nation.
“You cannot dream of freedom, gents,
just dig deep for gleedom's pence.”
Barry G. Wick
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Narcissus
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Life Goes On
Life goes on
Death goes on
Eternity goes on
The remembered go on
The forgotten go on
Eventually everybody goes on
We live for the living
We live for ourselves
We live for our families
We live for the moment
We live with our guilt
We live with our shame
We live with what we built
We live with our name
Barry G. Wick
For Ira Laney
Saturday, January 15, 2022
A Broken Branch
Thursday, January 13, 2022
A Time for Moats
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Good Morning
Good Morning
The fan on the furnace
spins for longer and longer
as a horn on the radio
plays its concerto
of a cold morning
The machine on the counter
plays my dishes clean
Electric lights right and left
and over the stove
All this to disappear?
My fragile world
disappears imperceptibly
as it crawls through the hours
its low slung belly
drags upon the hard ground
There are no heights
for it has been the demon
of all lives
waiting for its time to bite
A simple breakfast
will make it disappear
if only for temporary seconds
Which will hide you more?
Eggs or bran
Coffee or tea
Butter or jam
If we give it choices
it will stray from its
muddy path
and lose itself in decisions
I send it to the stars
A few parsecs and it will
forget about me
Barry G. Wick