“medicine work”
does describe
Doc’s untoward
pinballoid
hellishly jobbed
womb-toy
passion play
or unavoidable
free-floating
extrastellar
steely-eyed
not forgiving
nothingness’s
highest dose
mushroom cap
black magic,
which as
my boy gets old
is oy too much
for moi what
with losing
track pale body,
unaware parts
such as bladder
thusly pissed
meself in all
buck naked glory
— so we lower
to 2-3 grams
which remains
reasonably
interactive;
that ends up
doing the trick
though push come
to golly shovity
shove shove,
in comparison
empathogenic
Miss Molly’s
MDMA seems
a cooly predictable
picnic lovefest of
CAPITALIZED
SILKY SOFT
POSITIVITY.
MOZY ON
i. Better dead than read
come cowboy cum slowly whimpering
to impotent late-stage capitalism
misfits’ wet dream dark night soul
fastfood delivery, oy maybe Turkish
girl takeout — defamiliarized scrib-
bling nonce doginish form swirls;
I used to write toward y’all once
wishing to elicit pissed humanoid
barks. Or as we juiced hootenanny
addicted Jewish ex-communist droll
dysphoric standup comic assholes
called for laughs/ boos: if gaffes,
booze/ shoot up drugs (perhaps
even our heads off deliverance).
ii. Hints Of Bourdain’sParts Unknown
Instantaneously after
this celebrity known for
telling truths passed, Tony’s
Q score jumped through the roof…
Sicily just ran posthumously on
CNN despite this seeming paragon of
inspiring lively happiness paradoxically
hanging himself without any suicide note
“I am famous for my optimism…
I feel something snap [diving for
octopi] and then slide quickly into
a spiral of near hysterical depression…”
iii. holy ghost
brain drip
….pilfers
truth, fake
news can
marshal
common
nonsense:
eyes flash
— I dead.
Gerard Sarnat is a physician who’s built/staffed homeless clinics as well as a Stanford professor/healthcare CEO. Gerry’s been married since 1969 with three kids plus four grandkids and more on the way. He has been nominated for Pushcarts plus Best of the Net Awards and is widely published beyond medical in academic journals such as including by Oberlin, Brown, Columbia, Virginia Commonwealth, Johns Hopkins, Wesleyan and in Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, MiPOesias, Margie, Blue Mountain Review, Danse Macabre, Canary Eco, Military Experience and the Arts, Brooklyn Review, San Francisco Magazine, and Los Angeles Review. KADDISH FOR COUNTRY was selected for pamphlet distribution on Inauguration Day nationwide. “Amber Of Memory” was the single poem chosen for his 50th Harvard reunion Dylan symposium. Collections: Homeless Chronicles (2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014), and Melting the Ice King (2016).