Minimal Degree Of Creativity
What Not To Say To A Friend With A Mental Health Problem
I Always Knew You Had A Problem There, Need To Get Out More Its All In Your Mind
You’re Not Pushing Yourself Enough To Care, You Don’t Ever Know What You’re Going To Find
Things Aren’t That Bad Could Be So Much Worse, But You Have Nothing To Worry About
Your Own Damn Fault You Don’t Have To Curse, Nothing Wrong With You Chill The Fuck Out
You Just Have A Negative Attitude, Sounds Like You Are Going Crazy Dude
Complaining All The Time Just Grow A Pair, Nobody Ever Said That Life Was Fair
Go Snap Out Of It I Never Get Bored, Get Over Yourself Do You Know The Lord – 2018
Bucket List
Step Out Of My Comfort Zone For A Spell, Mark Another One Off The Bucket List
Memorize Piece About Living In Hell, Get Out In The World To See What I Missed
Don’t Take A Skateboard To A Gunfight Ma’am, Don’t Hail Satan At A Catholic Mass
Don’t Read Your Sonnet At A Poetry Slam, Judges Will Totally Hand You Your Ass
Another Caucasian With Attitude, Get That Rhyming Shit Out Of Here Dude
It’s Not Gonna Work Just Grow A Pair, Nobody Ever Said That Life Was Fair
You Gotta Go Out There And Take Your Shot, Some People Like It But Others Will Not – 2024
Sausage Jockey
Brothers Of The Fudge Big Boy Combo Play, Microwave Popcorn Hot Dog Engineer
Bowling In The Basement Hershey Highway, Liquor In The Front Poker In The Rear
Anal Chainsaw Massacre Backstage Pass, Kamikaze Big Chicken Rodeo
Intestinal Tourist Private First Class, Backdoor Barbeque Curly Larry Moe
Hunker Down Brown Town Slammer Jammer, Take It All The Way In Lower Alabama
Ride The Sausage Jockey Creeper Peeper, Stick It In Stick It In Deeper Deeper
Dance The Chocolate Chacha Elton John, Driving On On On On The Autobahn – 2016
Cha Cha
Many Opinions ’bout White Folks Who Dance, Some Look Down Their Nose At The Spectacle
We Are Having Fun So We Take The Chance, So What If Its Not Quite Respectable
Some People Don’t Like Caucasian Cha Cha, No Matter What We Do Or Don’t Wear
Giggle And Point And Call Our Moves Caca, We Will Have Too Much Fun To Care
Call It Cultural Appropriation, Ecclesiastical Abomination
Disco Wonder Blunder Panacea, Or Terpsichorean Diarrhea
An Opinion Is Often Compared To A Hole, Lay Down The Beat And Light Up Your Soul – 2023
Wonder Weasel
Its Got A Beat And You Can Dance To It, Shake Hands With A Salami Cluster Bomb
Spray Wonder Whipped Cream Banana Split, Whitewashing The Fence With Huck And Tom
Triggering Therapeutic Trouser Snake, Satin-Headed Serpent Carnal Knowledge
Tenderize Happy Lumberjack Tube Steak, Putting Mr. Kleenex’s Kids Through College
Pulling Your Own Baloney Pony Weight, Playing Tag With Your Pink Torpedo Freight
Put Relish On Your Hot Dog Spaghetti, Wax A One-Eyed Wonder Weasel Chevy
Calibrate Satanic Surge Protector, Tip Off The Crazy Hand Jive Inspector – 2017
Blanche Debris
They Come From The City Floating On Glee, Seeking Perpetual Indiscretion
From Gentrified Hollows In Tennessee, Sinners Reborn By Glorious Fashion
Dance Till You Drop By The Flickering Fire, Fanning The Flames With Fabulicity
Drums On The Land Go Higher And Higher, Slobbering Consensual Ecstasy
Come For The Spirit And Stay For The Bash, When It Is Over Who Takes Out The Trash?
Technicolor Piles Of Yesterday’s Drag, Goddess Worship In A Walmart Bag
Twisted Knickers From Guilty White Savior, Blanche Debris Does Radical Behavior – 2019
Wanted To Sleep
Been To The Mountaintop Been To The Sea, Your Body Part Insults And Boring Jive
Heard Happy Talk About Being Free, It’s A Fabulous Time To Be Alive
Laughed With Morticia Lusted For Lurch, Got Tested For Drugs And A Pesky Disease
Wanted To Sleep So I Dropped Out Of Church, Back Skull Feet Eyes Blood Pressure Knees
Blow Twenty Five Points In The Super Bowl, Jesus And Satan Fight Over My Soul
I Gave Up The Reefer And Gave Up The Beer, One Thing I Will Never Give Up Is The Queer
It’s Taken This Long To Find My Voice, Every Breath Is A Time To Rejoice – 2025
Blessed Be
When You’re Alienated From Jesus, God Of The Bible Or Bible Word Of God
Shameless Hustle For Something To Please Us, Authority Doctrine From Men Who Are Flawed
Bad Faith Babble About Life After Death, Loudmouth Bullies Who Think Its The Way
We Often Forget To Cherish Each Breath, Finding It So So Difficult To Pray
Thank You For Letting Me Be Here Now, For All The Times That We Get To Say Wow
Please See That The Living Are Loved And Fed, Help Us Trust You To Take Care Of The Dead
Thank You For The Life You Have Given Me, We Are All God’s Children Blessed Be – 2024
“Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to the authors of “original works of authorship” that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. An original work of authorship is a work that is independently created by a human author and possesses at least some minimal degree of creativity. A work is “fixed” when it is captured (either by or under the authority of an author) in a sufficiently permanent medium such that the work can be perceived, reproduced, or communicated for more than a short time. Copyright protection in the United States exists automatically from the moment the original work of authorship is fixed.” From Copyright Basics.
These poems are the copyrighted property of Luther Mckinnon. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media picture in November 1939. “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Turkey pickers waiting for work to start. Cooperative poutry plant, Brownwood, Texas”. These pictures are in the public domain. ©Luther Mckinnon 2025








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