Poetry 
I believe poetry helps reflect a personal aspect of history that you won't generally see in history books.
�Jewel
1932
A popular song, from the musical Americana, was "Brother, Can
You Spare a Dime?"
I actually wasn't alive at this time.
1990
Estonia and Latvia became independent nations, after 70 years of
Soviet rule.
I was in Alaska, in high school.
1996
The Welfare Reform Bill left nothing for the nation's disenfranchised!
Not a crumb!
Also: My album Pieces of You went triple-platinum.
2001
Health experts continue to stress the importance of young people
practicing safe sex.
I find that having only one name makes it easier to sign things,
like checks.
Warmer Still
Leonard Nimoy
Is exciting
But so are grope suits
On Scandinavian hookers
Poems are exciting
But so is amyl nitrate
And all the radio call-in shows about Bigfoot in the world
Will never replace
In Search Of . . .
Sometimes I wonder
Where I belong
In a Pacific Palisades 11-bedroom McMansion
Or
In prison
I guess I'm just
Interested in fashioning, for myself and my old lady, some
Space, man
Rilke as Unimaginative Defeatist
"We cannot know the legendary head."
Cinque Poesie
D. H. Lawrence
Held Rome in abhorrence.
Nymphs and shaggy-legged fawns
Were his turn-ons.
Michelangelo:
Whoa.
His statue of Moses�
Such fingers! Such toeses!
Dante Alighieri
Was very very very
Prim.
So fuck 'im.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Was known as a meanie.
Others called him a coot.
He ate little but fruit.
Coriolanus
Was a no-good, filthy�Restrain us.
There's a price to pay
For l�se-majest�.
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