THE POET LUCAN By R.M. Engelhardt

Lucan died

at 25 by suicide

as Rome burned

into cindars & ash

let's talk about 

goth before goth

with a touch of emo

that's what happens

when you hangout with

Nero instead of Keith

Richards 

too much violin

not enough Chuck

Berry 

R.M. Engelhardt is a poet, writer & author who's work over the last 25 years has been published in such journals as Thunder Sandwich, Full of Crow, Rusty Truck, Writers’ Resist, Dry Land Lit, Rye Whiskey Review, Hobo Camp Review & many others. He currently lives & writes in Upstate NY and his new books of poetry are entitled "DarkLands" (Published By Whiskey City Press 2019) & "We Rise Like Smoke Poems Psalms & Incantations" (DeadMansPressInk 2021)


Both are now available on Amazon.com


http://www.gentlemanoutsider.com