H e a r t S o n s & H e a r t D a u g h t e r s of A l l e n G i n s b e r g

N a p a l m H e a l t h S p a : R e p o r t 2 0 1 4 : A r c h i v e s E d i t i o n

DAVE ROSKOS

Poem for Michael

I hope death is not an ordeal

a swirl of bureaucracy

& paperwork

waiting rooms

& confrontations with clerks

in windowless cubicles

or is it a cocktail party

that never ended

where everyone is young again

& doesn’t have a drinking problem

Long Live Michael Pingarron!

Captain Ahab

one wild eye

bent mouth

slurred speech

incendiary poems

spat like grenades

full of seeds

[Originally published in NHS 2011, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs11/.]