The Outlaw Steve Corbett ink splotch

Beat Poems

July 5, 2024

When you see the photograph of me toasting life with a cold can of Tecate Mexican beer you know you came to the right place. Like a favorite bar where you can turn over a table without the owner calling the cops, my “Beat Poems” welcomes vagabonds, drifters and the unhinged. This new website feature […]

Maya Poems From Isla Mujeres

July 3, 2024

¡ViIVA LA REVOLUTION! firing squads blasted bullet holes into Mexican stone walls killing patriots who live forever in minds still burning with freedom Pancho Villa, Zapata, Jesús Malverde Margarita Neri shooting and looting with her campesino worker army Eagle and Serpent sent by Maya gods to free island people Rebels fought for land and liberty […]

Good Jobs Don’t Kill People

July 1, 2024

Pro-Palestinian protesters lined the Scranton General Dynamics ammunition plant driveway Sunday afternoon shouting “shame” as workers came and went during an employee shift change. Workers there make shell casings workers elsewhere in America fill with explosives to send to Israel to kill Palestinian men, women and children. More than 35,000 civilians have died in the […]

Eating Ourselves Alive

June 29, 2024

Cannibals could have saved Joe Biden. Gobbling up the President the way Biden hinted New Guinea cannibals ate his Uncle Ambrose Finnegan during World War II would have at least kept Biden from taking the CNN debate stage. Democrats could have benefited from human meat-eaters, too. They wouldn’t have to worry about Biden’s name appearing […]

Reporting the Gazan Ghost

June 23, 2024

Lean, unshaven and wearing a black helmet emblazoned on the front with the letters TV, the man who calls himself SAMIALUTIN on Facebook grins for the photographer. With a camera dangling from each shoulder and the word PRESS printed across the front of his blue flak jacket, he poses with Palestinian refugee children, his arms […]

The Outlaw Steve Corbett ink splotch