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|  | | Love Poems for Cannibals
"Love Poems for Cannibals" expresses the thoughts, feelings, quandaries and wonder of an American poet very much alive to the darkness and light of the 21st century.
As the reader moves through "Love Poems for Cannibals," he/she will find poems of war (in this case Vietnam), poems dealing with current spiritual issues (Christianity, Buddhism, spiritual doubt and the soaring-singing human spirit), dysfunctional family relationships and feelings, portraits of great spiritual figures in contemporary human history presented with candor and wit, poems that rage against the omnipresence of human hypocrisy, and poems that present American/Western civilization under a glaring light -- with the single redemptive quality that this author' | |  | | The Private and Public Life of King Able
King Able thinks he is alone and abandoned in his palace. But evil men dressed identically in white masks and lab coats are watching him.
My play is about a king who lives alone, seemingly abandoned in his palace. He is a very old king, but sprightly for his age. He makes vague, accusatory references to the queen who has left him. It is not clear if the queen is his wife or mother or fantasy.
He is an “unreal” king. Short and rotund, he wears a kingly uniform, maybe even with white fur collar and cuffs, red silk, etc. He may even remind one of “The Little King” cartoon. Yet in some of what he babbles, there may be a little of “King Lear.”
The king is named “King Able.” He considers himself an “able” king. He works |
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