Four Poems by Mikel K

Who is crazy?

Besides you and me?
Some guy, wearing a cowboy hat
and a beard, who is some higher up
in the Trump campaign, just said that
poor people have it made; that they 
were richer than the rich a hundred
years ago. I don't have it made
and neither does he. Nobody does.
We all have our crosses to bear.

 


 
 
You are beautiful
 
You are beautiful
as you are,
wherever you are,
however you are;
if the sun is shining,
if the moon is out,
upon waking,
and before you fall asleep.
You are beautiful
when you are pouting.
You are beautiful
when you smile.
You are beautiful
when you are here.
You are beautiful
when you are gone.
You are beautiful
in person.
You are beautiful
on the telephone.
You are beautiful here.
You are beautiful there
and I’m glad 
that you are
here with me.





Pain Street
 
Down on Main St. there’s a pain streak
where the losers, and the down and outers go.
I lost my Love there; she had fair hair, 
left with a man with a guitar on the go.
 
 




Because of her
 
Because of her,
he bit his nail so hard
that his finger started bleeding.
The pain surprised him.
He wanted to cry.
Not because of his fingernail,
but because of her.

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Bio: Mikel K is a poet and memoirist living in Atlanta, Ga.
K was voted best Atlanta Poet three years in a row, by readers of Creative Loafing, Atlanta's weekly newspaper. He has a BS in English with a minor in Journalism from Georgia State University. He drank his way out of Florida State University one class short of a business degree.
 
Poetry by Mikel K has, recently, appeared in: Subtle Tea, Inbetwen Hangovers,  Drown In My Own Fears, Your One Phone Call, Harbinger Asylum, Indiana Voice Journal, Dissident, Voice, Dead Snakes, Horror Sleaze Trash, Poeticus, Anti-Heroic Chic, Section 8 Magazine, drown in my own fears, poetic diversity, Zygote In My Coffee, High Coupe, The Blue Lake Review, Swimming With Elephants, Ceremony, Visceral Uterus, High Coupe, Fragrance Poetry Magazine, The Piker Press, Vox Poetica, Napalm and Novocaine, Ceremony.

Mikel K's book, Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself,
can be purchased at www.pskisporch.com
 
Voted Atlanta’s Best Poet in Creative Loafing for the past three years, Mikel K Poet clearly has a large local following. His conversational style has been compared to Charles Bukowski or Hunter S. Thompson. His writing is deceptively accessible; you may want to sit with it for awhile to truly appreciate his work. His poems are sprinkled with local references, truly marking him as an Atlanta insider, but even those from outside the perimeter will find something to identify with in Mikel’s work. --Keely Herrick, CBS Atlanta

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