Dan Lukiv

I Heard on CBC, poetry Dan Lukiv

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.