I Heard on CBC, poetry

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022.

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, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).