Shakespeare on the Light Rail

Rebalancing my portfolio

Staring death in the eye

Through risk lenses 

Head like the Elephant Man

Torso like Saint Sebastian

My right oblique tight

I was Othello white

Desdemona half black, half Chinese

Presenter and influencer

Quotes, clubs, slow cookers

Bats right throws right

At large, in chief

Infinitely clippable

Massive digital reach

Stole the heart off my sleeve

I flipped like a cheap zori

My blood pressure spiked like agave

And bats were swinging for the fences

I just want to rock that smart little backside 

From allegro presto to andante pastoral

Strong merch numbers’ll do that

A night of high engagement

Peer-to-peer messaging 

Any platform, any cloud

We matched app for app

Fiercely compelling, fiercely tender

And although this account is private somehow

The internet lit up.

© Copyright 2026 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

Scrolling at the Seashore

The café is lit like a refinery

Sights sounds ordure

Incense wafts into the 

Unremedied hazardous waste

Of attentional technology

I’m killing time before a medical appointment.

Quite enjoying “Death to America” again

It’s been a minute

And as sure as day follows night

Flight disruptions lead to travel chaos

Warnings about sleeper cells and lone wolves

But doggone that pain at the pump.

Even though you can’t exactly see the shore

From the Seashore, when it comes to the Middle East

I couldn’t pick them out on a map

But who needs maps--just ask AI

Keep your chin up and your Hormuz straight

There’s two sides to every pancake.

Yet I feel pain at the pump

I’ve made my living doing things machines do 

And now I’m an expat in my own birthplace

A medical tourist in my own country

With multiple good driver discounts

Off to see the doctor about that nagging pain at the pump.

© Copyright 2026 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

Living in the Framework

Three Down: Instant Noodles

All this to do 

And then it’s like

Macrame and scrapbooking

Like teaching a daughter to snowboard

My car’s in the shop

While sheep are lambing

Yes, it's like ramen.

Like happy hour refills

Of the secretary o' war

His aesthetics (slim pickins) 

“Death and destruction from the sky”

Tankers, subs and warships

All got that sinking feeling

“All day long.”

Some people see aces and icons and ask

Where’s my phone

Some people see sequels and reboots and ask

How’s the weather

Some people see touchpoints and canons and ask

Where’s my mood board

And then the front door, chirping.

© Copyright 2026 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

Hey Nonny No

Life hacks 

Former brand content analyst

And smart charger of managed loads

Drove the short bus for special needs adults

Now a special needs adult short bus rider himself

Now down to the final kilowatt hours

Gearing up and spinning off

Evidence-based and meaningful

Poetry from his soul.

When reading these poems

Two core themes will pop out:

Death to America is back

Chicken Supreme is back.

Some people may experience

Symptoms such as

Shaking, sweating, nausea, or

Feeling angry

Feeling silly

All this is to be expected.

My stunt double 

Dude’s lost

Skiing untracked powder

Lost in the wilderness

Of trying to reconnect

With his most authentic self

Concussed by the terms and conditions

Pommeled pneumatically

Pinball bumpers, pugil sticks

He still has the first rug ever

Pulled out from under him.

In search of the ethos

Un mémoire

Un élan vital 

Par excellence.

Hecho a mano

Al pie de la letra 

Y de cabo a rabo.

Pamphleteers and interface teams 

From the church Jesus attended

Waves of charming butterflies.

A mother feeding her kids

Amidst rubble

Steam rising from rice.

Live fan footage

Sponsored at age ten

Claiming half-pipe gold

A 12-stack stairway

Kid’s just beast

Pointed ears and furry feet

Got the clip OTY 

Forget what you’ve heard

Twenty-first century civilization slaps.

© Copyright 2026 Randy Stark

Author Page (Amazon)

last seven lines from poem 14 in Richard Foreman's book "Slice"

First time was last time.
I gobbled
swallowed
not scared, not free
not particularly me

That’s how I got where I am now

not particularly.

PennSound: Richard Foreman

foreman_slice.pdf

My Screen is Live

I’m a global, digital consultancy offering

Peer advisory network optimization 

Advanced back-office services 

And robust cross platform behavior

Both on premises and in the cloud 

Always leaning in with a trend line

Targeting viewing queues

From cryptocurrency miners with

Lunch buckets, smeared faces

To the behemoths and titans and colossi

In cloud service, credit cards, and entertainment.

Beloved by Reddit threads

I’m a recognized innovator in fully integrated solutions 

A juggernaut in the attention economy 

A darling among tastemakers seeking

A unified next gen media experience

A principal voice and mastermind

A driving force in advanced wave forms

And legacy infrastructure architecture

Leaping tall paywalls with a single code

Revealing the secret to breakout gifting and travel

Bohemian activewear and cellular bioresonance.

I’m a big believer in

Branded custom private label

Wearables, edibles

Tangible AI products

New Roth options

I heart vibroacoustic therapy

First thing I do is I sit down with the client 

And I say Look here’s how 

To do a chemistry read on Zoom

And here’s how to make it to where 

There is an “I” in team.

And so yeah

I’m not going to lie

Never in a million years arrived yesterday

It’s been a meteoric rise

People love to be critical of a breakout hit

But synergy doesn’t grow on old growth discourse 

You wouldn’t put an expensive sword

In a cheap scabbard 

I’m de rigueur

De ri 

Fucking gueur.

© Copyright 2026 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

Imagine Your Label Dropping You on Valentine's Day

Same age as Jesus

When he was crucified

I aint did nothing wrong

I aint even reached major traction

Cinderella season cut short.

I feel like honestly

There are different ways

To kind of go about it

I killed a lot but 

Left a slew unslain.

Doesn’t matter how big

Matters how deadly I guess

Expletives was hurled

Put an S in front of laughter you get 

The forever chemicals in wrinkle cream.

So what I’m gonna fucking gonna do

Is I’m fucking hoping to just 

Stay aspirational and reframe the loss

Respect the franchise, contemplate 

The future of pop and my place in it.

© Copyright 2026 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com