Marc D. Goldfinger

“Taking The Homeless Census by Alexis Ivy: ISBN: 978-1-947817-14-2; Published by Saturnalia Press and Winner of Saturnalia Books Editor’s Prize.” I read this marvelous book of poetry three ...

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The world we live in has been rocked by crisis after crisis. First the Coronavirus slipped in amongst us, taking, at first, the most vulnerable populations from our nursing homes, Veterans’ Hom...

https://marcdgoldfinger.outlawpoetry.com/2020/06/09/all-we-are-saying/

  “For George Floyd: The whole World was watching”* Shawn Mottram, killed dead on October 12, 1998 by what Trooper Joseph Stone said was an accidental shot when he slipped while climbing a c...

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If I made funny noises and ran around the room, I wouldn’t have to tell the therapist anything. I know my mother told him I wet the bed all the time. But no one else knows about the boy who sai...

https://marcdgoldfinger.outlawpoetry.com/2020/05/10/resiliency-a-moment-in-an-addicts-time/

When God Blinks* “taken from records kept by Nazi’s at the Death Camps” I In A Jewish Home in Poland, 1942 It is I Moishe, hiding under the stairs. Those men they search the house. Bruce, w...

https://marcdgoldfinger.outlawpoetry.com/2020/05/02/when-god-blinks/

for Mary Esther, A resurrection She walks on the beach alone, a solitary walk. The cane is in her right hand. She bends close to the water, picks something out of the sand. She is out of my clear...

https://marcdgoldfinger.outlawpoetry.com/2020/04/26/cane-step-cane/

For Princess Diana, R.I.P. Things don’t always break up as easy as anticipated. The metal, the metal springs at the heart of it cause all the trouble. Or the wood, or the keys, not the hammer o...

https://marcdgoldfinger.outlawpoetry.com/2020/04/26/breaking-the-piano/

“for my mother, who was still alive” My addiction has me by the throat in the neck of my mind. Do crime, do crime, it says, get some money. My therapist tells me that’s the voice of my fath...

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There were 38 people in court for failure to insure, unregistered vehicle, false plates. Economic crimes. At one point a person stood in front of the judge on a revise and revoke. Means to have y...

https://marcdgoldfinger.outlawpoetry.com/2020/04/26/an-average-day-in-an-american-court/

  And she asked me “What would you do for a fix?” I thought for a few moments. I was this kind of addict. For a fix I would steal from my mother’s purse For a fix I would take my sister’...

https://marcdgoldfinger.outlawpoetry.com/2020/04/23/what-would-you-do-for-a-fix/