Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2019. Previously published as Poems of Malady (LukivPress Online [Quesnel, BC], 2007). // An excerpt // Grean Peace // I don't know why I like coffee / In a Styrofoam-cup; / Maybe I like killing off / Ozone. // What about you? / Do you really care about bugs, / Herbs, and hardwood from / Rain forests? // I don't, / But I care about coffee-- / Himalayan's the best, and / This lousy jewelry shop / Where I'm bought and sold / Like a Clerk X / (When did that Malcolm guy / Get shot?) / For ten bucks an hour-- / They're lucky I'm not a thief. / I could rob this joint; / My wife could use a big / Rock. // Anyway, / I deserve this coffee break, / And the way I figure it, / Ozone can go to hell.
