Grinding Metal Corporate Teeth

unfulfilled desires - b. plainwilder poetry

Icky times in Dinjyville
Pacin round the platform waitin for a train
stumblebum plinkin phone

Everywheres another clanky
smart device encrusted soul
worlds away from satisfaction or fulfillment
in Some Hole

Under monstrous office towers
trapped in sticky mires
the maelstrom of each day

Weary eyed and hesitant
Disappointed mucho

Bad luck dangles down lapels
at times glinting off from those

Grinding Metal Corporate Teeth
that don’t let go

 

Drawing above by Frost Newton

 
© 2025 by Rob Sienna / b. plainwilder

Home to Surreal Flights uh Fancy

for Ken Freedman

Switching on the radio
I turn on FMU
Heart and soul its indie crew
Tenders an essential stew

The coolest DJs ever
WFMU
A very clever bunch
This pillar of community

Home to Surreal Flights uh Fancy

FMU the best
Lifting east and west

Its fresh thoughtful features
Fire up new ways to be
The airwaves used ingeniusly
Building up community

FMUs unmatched
Supporting smartly
Freakball tuneage
WFMU

© 2025 by Rob Sienna

Civil Rights Poetry - The Defiant Ones

Da Defiant Ones

Sidney P. & Tony C. playing
Da Defiant Ones!

a tres significant filmic comment
1950 Jim Crow south:
one man black, one man white
a desperate bedraggled pair

In a tawdry deep south chain gang
racing off one day
brutal lawmen closing in
aiming to blow out their brains…
Sidney P. & Tony C. playing
Da Defiant Ones!

Insane existential threats & terror
dis film did address much that’s still not done…
sadly social problems
keep so many on the run!

Hats off to its shiny points
Hollywood’s inventive drum,
dis shtory told a poignant way…
Sidney P. & Tony C. playing
Da Defiant Ones!
  

© 2023 by bob plainwilder