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Lightning Rod hopes you are enjoying the online version of Cool Calm Collected. The Table of Contents is below. Just click the title to read the poem. The print version is coming soon.
"Music and prayer and poetry
are unnecessary variations on silence,
amusing noises, wrinkles in the void
like braille written on a mirror
no bump or dash is superior
the whey no nobler than the curd
motion is an unnecessary variation on stillness
listen to the quiet between the words"--Lrod
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Table Of Contents
Ten Minutes In the Solar System
Haul That Cross
Cut-Up for Larry Ferlinghetti
Auntie Meat
The Ballad of Katman DooDah and Felonious Punk
Seven Deadly Sins
Purgatory Timeshare
Snow On My Smith & Wesson
Funky Alien
Song For Ancestors and Descendants
The Perfect Taco
The Poet's Dirty Socks
Circus of Dreams
Complete The Form
Complacency
For Joe Campbell
Angels In Shit
No Mo' Two-By-Fours
Stand and Deliver
My Cock
There's No Business
Last Will and Testament
The Contractors
Hard Times
The Solipsist
May-December Song
Anti-Hero
Ask Me If I Care
No Pensions for Poets
Last Poem
Something Wrong
Your Champion
Book of Changes
The Persistence of Vanity
Packin'
Work Ethic
The Price Is Right
Strange Fruit
Take Me
Green Energy
Eight-Day Party
Top Cat
Under the Influence
Learn the Tune
Occupational Hazards
Guppy Love
Christ, The Bounty Hunter
Crackhead Love
Time Out
God and Dr. Frankenstein
Burning Angels
The Meeting
Alias
Cinderella Story
Who Needs It?
Self-Examination
The Dark Horse
The Gunslingers
Ballad of the Emphysemic Flute Player
The Persistence of Poetry
Limited Partnership LLC
Orthodontics
Chance Meetings
Puppy Love
Confessions of a Cereal Killer
Get Over It
The Massage Is the Message
Slapstick Sex
Love Poetry
Where the Heart Lies
Hearts of Ice
The Page of My Occupation
Hearts and Heads
Sudden Chill
Sunset In the Morning
Bad Intelligence
The Cat Machine
Retired
LR On Blues
J. Alfred Rocks
Tearing the Twat
Love Dialogue
Fate Is Slow
Fear of Love
Your Choice
Laws of Awareness
The Mirror Blinks
Dracula Drooling
Eyewitness Account
Vanicure
Mr. Potato Heart
Sleight of Hand
Truth In Poetry
What's In a Name?
Phantasm
Dotty Parker's Parakeet
Death Wish
Little Black Book
Daughter of Morning
Poem For My Son
And I'm Stickin' To It
Things A Poet Should Remember
Lightning Rod's Stretch Marks
Look a Saint in the Eye
Set 'Em Up, Joe (Opus 3 in C Major)
Not That Kind of Love
Old Flame
My Bandana
A Momentary Letter To a Friend
Girl Next Door
Cumulative Effects
The Pirate Breeze
Speaking In Tongues
Three For the Fool
Tonight I Play the Flute
Pom Pom Days
What's In a Name?
Higher Education
Fallen Angel
On the Trail of Eternity
Limping Epiphany
Pity Party
States of Matter
Cirque du Soleil
Religious Tolerance
The Devil's Algebra
Vagina Envy
Jack's Ferrari
Pleasant Valley Sunday
What Do You Call Your Baby?
Song for Progeny
Padnahs
Excalibur
Tangled Up in Jazz
Quantum Mechanics
Karma Sutras
Don't Bogart That Muse
Sunday Minuet
Valentine Meme
Time and Kudzu
Place Your Bets
Lazarus Longing
Jazz and You
The Information Age
Et Tu
Cross Breeding
The Crime of the Nursery Rhyme
Happy Our
Cruel Tool
Fractal Floozie
Astronaut Down
5/4
As I Watch You Sleep
For Crowley
Venus Burning
Let It Be
Cobwebs
Song for Progeny
Padnahs
Excalibur
Nice Try
DOCTOR Rubato
No Mo' Eskimos
Foreplay
Poetry Is Lost
Osama & Yo Mama
Evermore
Outlaw Nights
Kneeling In the Sky
Sunday School
Bullshit Filters
Sniper Country
Social Climbing
Business Models
Prayer Wheel
Beauty Mark
Death Is Short
Can I See Some ID?
Forces
Art Work
For Richard
Peak Beer
Hate Is a Torch
Beat
Vernal Redux
She
Cracked Sonnet for Crazy Women
Rate of Exchange
PDA
About Last Night
RESUME
Roadwork
Double Nickels
Womb Service
Carry a Torch
When I Was a Young Flute Player
Her Fingers
The Fate of Dreams
Choose Your Poison
Dream #37
