I Heard on CBC, poetry

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021.

Previously published as Cariboo-Winter (LukivPress [Quesnel, BC], 1998).

An excerpt

Grean Peace

I don't know why I like coffee

In a Styrofoam-cup;

Maybe I like killing off

Ozone.

What about you?

Do you really care about bugs,

Herbs, and hardwood from

Rain forests?

I don't,

But I care about coffee-

Himalayan's the best, and

This lousy jewellery shop

Where I'm bought and sold

Like a Clerk X

(When did that Malcolm guy

Get shot?)

For six bucks an hour-

They're lucky I'm not a thief.

I could rob this joint;

My wife could use a big

Rock.

Anyway,

I deserve this coffee break,

And the way I figure it,

Ozone can go to hell.

The author

Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.