I Am Kentucky

Force Forces I want to organize Force forces to capitulate I want to see Flower, Dinosaur, and Kitty-Kat Commanding from the top of Heaven's Gate I want sweet deriders to hide inside from us Scholastic Zen give up...

This week’s poem is called “Force Forces”:

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The Shape Of Things To Come: Part 7 It would be foolish to speak for the Women They will speak for themselves In the garden at night beyond the black gate attached to no fence If The Man and the Boy Can endure the fever and the fear For...

Part 7 of “The Shape Of Things To Come” is out this morning:

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Goodnight for Tonight or "The 11th Hour"

My weekly poem (from Saturday), entitled “November”:

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10 and 11 I went to bed satisfied Rare In my sleep I had a dream Two boys 11 and 10 Their Father gone Mother dying The time left was for important questions only For some reason They needed me Mother acquiesced...

This week’s poem, on Substack:

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New song out today - Born American

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The Shape Of Things To Come: Part 6 Spoken: Dad what do you think will happen if we get up and try to walk at night and go through the open black steel gate attached to no fence? All things are open now Relationship is singularity Commu...

This week’s poem, Part 6 of The Shape Of Things To Come:

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October 20th, 2025

My Daughters Prayers for my daughters Prayers for my daughters Fathers without sin Make Girls without Fathers Baptize the water Baptize the water When Fathers invent everything Dry go the Daughters Lambs to the sl...

This week’s poem on Substack:

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Coming soon……

Perfect Composure For the past five weeks, I’ve been writing an epic in instalments.

Here is this week’s poem, entitled “Perfect Composure”

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The Shape Of Things To Come: Part 5 Here is what used to exist in the place where the Men now only love the Boys Kick-flips and choke-holds Heads smashed against curbs in parking lots outside bars Televised beatings in cages Murder (whe...

Here is Part 5 of my latest poetry work, “The Shape Of Things To Come”. The other 4 parts are all on my Substack preceding Part 5:

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The Archer

A song I released September 8th, in honour of a young man in our town, Archer. May he live forever now:

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#archer #thearcher #thearchers

The Shape Of Things To Come: Part 4 Here is how it works When the fever and the fear come In near-star dark With dusk glooming up on the men and the boys Leaves of trees go completely still And just as the Earth and all things since the...

Here is Part 4 of my latest work “The Shape Of Things To Come”:

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The Shape Of Things To Come: Part 3 Loss relinquished but for the disappeared women Confusion midwifed away Competitions defeat echoes sine waves Tangerines in the garden Tangents spun golden from the circle One thing left to know One t...

Part three of “The Shape Of Things To Come” from my weekly Substack post:

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The Archer

With the support of Sarah and Nathan, Archer’s parents, and in accordance with their wishes, we released a new song this morning called The Archer that is dedicated to their beautiful and eternal son. I wrote and recorded the song so that he will live forever in it:

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The Shape Of Things To Come: Part 2 June is like December now December like August All months all time Vanished like natural insecurity Vivid in the mirror of opposites Gone in the warm endless days since they left Holy and warm Softly ...

Part 2 of my latest work “The Shape Of Things To Come” is now up on Substack, for free:

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The Shape Of Things To Come Don't worry he said just keep sweating into my hand I'll keep brushing it all through your hair like we do every night I can feel your warm young body and I will always take care of you I love you I l...

Part 1: The Shape Of Things To Come

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I Haven't Had Anything Good To Eat I woke up very hungry and I suddenly realized it had been a long time since I had anything good to eat.

This week’s Substack post, entitled “I Haven’t Had Anything Good To Eat”:

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Baker's Ridge Oh the joy! A mountain, we climb I by the ripped meat of my palms You on your toes, graceful I hardly breathing You hardly sweating Do you remember though the small-medium sized lichen-covered rocks y...

This week’s poem:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/bakers-ridge

Second Chance Music (Live) Kentucky · Album · 2025 · 17 songs

Just dropped a live version of my debut album, Second Chance Music. Unedited, no auto-tune, no fixing. Recorded by Ken Friesen on May 25, 2025 at the historic Almonte Old Town Hall in Almonte, Ontario, Canada. Here’s the link to Spotify:

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Constellations On her legs are my constellations all my ways home Maybe there was more than one way home there is i know only one home She is my home and my way home How can that be? I'm too lucky and I don't deserv...

This week’s poem on Substack:

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Kentucky Artist · 197 monthly listeners.

That’s wonderful! Thank you for sharing. Here’s my music…have a listen to my songs “America, The Beautiful”, “Santa Fe” in particular and you’ll hear how much I love the best parts of America and Americans:

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You made me laugh a laugh of sadness when you said that last part. No doubt. And is that you in your profile picture? Super cool photograph

Wow there is a crazy amount of history in Paducah, I had no idea. Really fascinating to read. Can I ask you 2 questions….what has ICE done in your city so far, and have you ever been to Canada?

Also yeah the American people are in a tough spot right now…big time

Ah!! Nice to talk with you. Where in Kentucky? I was talking with someone from Corbin the other day. And btw I’ve lived in America working as a musician in the past, and I’ve toured it a lot, from coast to coast. I have big love for the land and a lot of the people.

I still don’t get it but now I get your first message…you’re making fun of me with “I am Canada” lol. I’m Canadian….I chose the name Kentucky because it was a nickname given to me years ago.

What do you mean? Out of America?

That sounds like a demanding job

Collins Bay Institution or "Inside/Outside"

This week’s Substack post. Free to subscribe, and you receive a poem every week on Saturday morning, 52 weeks a year. This is a part of my life’s work:

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