Sunday, January 17, 2010

My Mother's Revenge











Kathy Albertini is a tortured soul. Only offspring of the notorious Dixie Mafia Don Angelo Albertini, she has spent years trying to distance herself from the "Family." She seems to have succeeded, at least outwardly. She has a job she likes at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans where she is accepted for who she is and not where she came from.
But Kathy has problems dealing with the past. The long, painful and torturous death of her mother dished out to her by her father for a sin he cannot forgive lays heavy on Kathy's mind. She feels some guilt because until her father sent her away to expensive private schools she completely eradicated her mother from her mind. But the memory of what she saw the day her father brought her home and what happened afterward lays heavy on her mind and she has gone out of her way to dress and act as different as possible as her mother, never wanting anyone to say, "Like mother like daughter."
This includes her sexual partners in what are basically weekend orgies. She takes multiple partners in a desperate and foolhardy attempt to still distance herself from her mother. Her life is split into. She has her job. She likes her job. She had her debauchery weekends. She does not like them, but does not know how to make them stop. In walks John, the paper's new cub reporter and sweeps her off her feet. Kathy is in love completely, something she just knew would never happen; now life is perfect. Her love for John begins to erase her other problems. She doesn't have the nightmares anymore. She doesn't have multiple partners. She is deliriously happy. Until the day she realizes she has a stalker. Not merely a stalker, but a man who is determined to destroy Angelo Albertini for crimes he believes he commented against his own mother. Soon Kathy finds herself on a houseboat in the middle of a swamp and at the mercy of this deranged,


Saturday, January 16, 2010

Crow - Villanelle





rainy dreary day
  two crows sit on the mantle
rain drips, poet writes

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Ruth


Will she ever come back to me,
To whisper untruths in my ear?
My lovely woman from the sea.
No, she's gone forever I fear.

Her face was chiseled out of lust,
Her body had treasures untold.
Her aura of earthiness musk,
Around my maleness to unfold.

Young, she was much too young for me,
She gave me passion I had lost,
Whether making love or sipping tea,
But God in Heaven what a cost.

I walked around with a huge smirk,
Reveling in the charms of her youth.
She made me feel like a young Turk,
As I whispered her name, sweet Ruth.

A ballerina, style and grace,
She tiptoed o'er my weary heart.
Her voice was like poison and lace,
She measured me up, a la carte.

With arms that soothed my savage beast,
Her long legs wrapped around my waist,
Upon my body Ruth did feast,
Until my problems were erased.

I was malleable to her desires,
A wink and a nod was all it took.
Her voice like a Heavenly choir,
Stirred memories of ancient brooks.

Ruth's strength lay within her weakness,
A clinging, wanting kind of joy.
She supped from my soul with finesse,
In her hands I was beguiled, oy.

When two can become one with heat,
Ecstasy is ripe on the plum,
And she clung to my offered meat,
Only tempered with sips of rum.

Ruth's lips, aged in barrels of wine,
A last meal, how could I not know?
As we made love beneath the pines.
She took me to peaks, then to woe.

I see her now where 'er she be,
A new lover she's given the eye.
She takes him on with bogus glee,
But, oh, I wish I was that guy.

I sit staring out the window,
And rue the day she came my way.
I'll never be the same, I know,
My skies are cold and gray each day.

I look toward Heaven and I shriek,
Why did she forsake me, my God?
Like a fool I think He will speak,
Is Ruth nothing but a façade.
When I have moments of real truth,
I have a feeling so absurd.
Oh, but she made me feel my youth,
Was it real, did it in fact, occur?

Was she a dream or was it real,
Things get fuzzy when you are old
Did I make love to the real deal,
Or was it a dream that I did hold?

©January 11, 2010 / Jerry Pat Bolton

Saturday, January 9, 2010




Fellow Patriots the time has come,
Fellow Patriots there is work to be done,
Raise the invisible torch and pass it along,
Keep it burning,
Keep it burning,
Forward on that road that has no turn,
Die if you must,
For a cause that is just,
But shout to the end
No surrender!

--From the 1943 film, Hangman Also Die

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Dottie's Love



loving you was so exquisite
in those early days
it felt like dying from passion
to gaze upon your face
your lips which quivered when you smiled
those dark brown eyes
sometimes almost dark like chocolate
to look at you thusly
could send me into the stratosphere
and your simple touch
could bring me back to solid earth
you touched me where none had before
stood strong
when standing strong was needed
all for me
sacrificed your desire many times
for mine
when I found myself
walking through the minefield of
insecurity
you were my rock
always there
smiling, standing strong for me
you said much the same about me
we leaned on one another
all those years
if you were disappointed
with your life
and me
you never let it show
until the ravages of hell descended upon you
even then
when I looked into those eyes
I saw Dottie of old
not the ravaged one going through hell
the pain you suffered
was relatively short
I am grateful for that
I think of those last days daily
can't help it
couldn't help it then
but mostly
I think of those wonderful, wonderful
good times
great times
fantastic times we had
getting to where we were

next month will be a year
since you left
just want you to know
my love is still strong

©January 2, 2010 / Jerry Pat Bolton

Monday, December 28, 2009

Contumely




the dawning of a new year
plods unwaveringly toward
the sheared sheep
while we
the sheep waiting to be sheared
shoot play rockets in the air
blow up balloons
to bring in this new decade
our leaders
from Hussein to the
Senate and the House of Representatives
on down to local elected officials
are spittin' in our faces
and calling it rain
nothing but abuse of power
they're stickin' it to us
because they can
they are not only discourteous
they are sneeringly disrespectful
used to be
once upon a time
there were two parties
in Washington
one balancing the other out
no more
Hussein's party is like pit bulls
always on the attack
never letting go of the prize
the other one
the limp-wristed one's
the Runpublicans
tuck their tails and slink away
while the majority of the American public
is being dealt
degrading and insulting defeat
as religious totalitarianism
can you say theocracy
is beginning to be smelled from afar
(where's the ACLU)
plants its foot
squarely on our backs
somewhere, somehow the idea of government
by and for the people
have been discarded like so many
table scraps
after an elite and smug banquet
while we
find ourselves clinging to beliefs of old
such as
pride in who we are
Americans
not championing diversity
Americans
not Mexican-Americans
Polish-Americans
Native-Americans
Whatever-and-Whoever-Americans
Americans
to stand up for diversity
is foolish and destructive
see what it has gotten us, huh?
the mere word
diverse means different
not the same
different
the crack in the Republic has been widened by that word
if you live in America
legally
you should call yourself an American
fuck the hyphen
standing strong and united
for the mother country
not
putting her down

we have lost our soul
suicide by apathy
a very slow bleed

©December 25, 2009 / Jerry Pat Bolton