Poems from Kurt Philip Behm
A lotta times
it ain’t good
and it ain’t bad
— it’s what it is
(Blue Front Café: August, 1969)
Commercial success
the lie of tomorrow
Wrapped in the death
— of today
(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)
Transmuting the past
denying the future
Reliving the moment
— time after time
(The New Room: March, 2024)
Shooting my classmate’s brother
(that war within a war)
I sat next to him at The Point
still targeting him sure
More than blood will flow...
Are you willing to shoulder
the burden that was left
by those no longer heard
To write those things
they never wrote
inspired by their...