2020 / POETRY / AUTHOR

GARY BECK

AS WE SINK
…

The trees are green.
Flowers are blooming.
The birds are singing
cheerfully.
It’s hard to imagine
disasters everywhere,
natural, man made.
We can’t control
an erupting volcano,
all we can do
is flee the lava.
What’s more frightening
in a different way
is a bad President
out of control,
wrecking the future
of a declining empire,
callously betrayed
by greedy capitalists
with no concern
for the fate of the people.

…

GARY BECK has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his published books include 26 poetry collections, 10 novels, 3 short story collections, 1 collection of essays and 1 collection of his one-act plays. Published poetry books include: Dawn in Cities, Assault on Nature, Forthcoming: His novels include a series ‘Stand to Arms, Marines’, Forthcoming: Until the Bell and Pirate Spring). His short story collections include: A Glimpse of Youth (Sweatshoppe Publications). The Republic of Dreams and other essays (Gnome on Pig Productions). The Big Match and other one act plays (Wordcatcher Publishing, Forthcoming: Collected Plays of Gary Beck Volume 1 and Four Plays by Moliere - Translated and Directed by Gary Beck)). Plays of Aristophanes will be published by Cyberwit Publishing. Gary lives in New York City.

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