Eileen, Mother of Eric Ivan Berg, poems

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2019. Previously published as Poems Straight From Quesnel (Quesnel Writers' Group, 1997). // An excerpt // Granville's Caf // Coffee-customers / Laugh, squeal, / Interpret laughs, / Sip, grimace, snort, / Try to get free re-fills, / Poke at smoke rings, / Drink Jet Fuel / (Two shots of cappuccino / In a milk shake), / Praise lead guitarists as / Obscure as Johnny Winter, / Condemn ismism, / Dream about fortunes, / And power- / Which one wouldn't admit / To dreaming about- // Admit to living Freudian/Jungian / Jungle lives / In which "east is east / And west is west"- / And if anybody forces the / Two together, / Quick tongues / Kill the romance, / Make pride scarlet, / Like cappuccino-bitterness / On a taste bud.