Sam Abrams

THE PURPOSE


the purpose

of that cute little tailwag
robin does right after
perching on bare branch

is

to save & shake our world
as any fool old pothead
can plainly see


TRICK OR TREAT YOU BASTARDS


Karen Thompson was having her halloween pint in her local
when a couple of freedom fighters blew out her brains, for a joke-o.

Derry, derry, down, down, down
Derry, derry, down.

Oh the hed hed lines
on the morning District Line.

How can people laugh?
How can people smile?

Derry, derry, down.


KT 17, her fiancé Steven Mullan and five others murdered in the Rising
Sun Pub, Greysteel, Londenderry, 30 October 93.



FLIP FLOP FLIP


cliffs Idra Mochlos
Cuyamungue
my damnfool trick
of taking off into
the unfamiliar rough

no water no hat
beach sandals
no compass no
map no fire
starter no tellin' anyone
where I'm going no
knowin' where I'm going
damnsure gonna get
me killed someday

hooray
hooray
hooray


THE TEST


Grow old along with me
& Tony & Joe & I had not
thought so many

the test is yet
     fast friends fade
          strength
              memory fades

mom has passed
                 away away away

dad passed
       away away

orphaned in this
          world of
infinite contingency

infinite decrepitude

the test is yet:
                                          to
                                                   be!