Brian L. Jacobs

Brian L. Jacobs resides with his husband in California, has been teaching English thirty years and is working on his PhD. Brian was the assistant to Poet Allen Ginsberg while earning his MFA. During that time he walked half way around the world while on a peace pilgrimage. Brian is also a three time Fulbright Scholar, an NEH grant recipient and renewed poet.

Discursive Youth

reechoed in my urine
soaked sheets

as I thought the lights blinking red and blue
flying outside my window shade

were UFO’s
for in the 1970’s

that was a thing
on TV and in movies

greys probed
in the third kind

and where the nearby
Humdinger dive bar pilots drank

from the nearby base
next to the Stop n Go

where I stole Butterfingers
cinnamon sticks and candied cigarettes

nuclear weapons aimed red east
rest on seal’d beaches