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November 9, 2025

In the Heart

In the Heart and Vascular Center waiting room, a Malaysian woman from Reno with a face filled with stories throws a nod my way. “What brings you here?” “My […]

November 9, 2025

A Pushy Oakland Wind Almost Pushed Me

into a dead raccoon sprawled over a dying oak tree’s finger roots wrapping around feral decomposition at 26th & Telegraph 2 blocks from where I hunt down my dreams on […]

November 9, 2025

Concrete and Petroleum through the Centuries

The 21st Century is being built on 20th-century concrete. Concrete cracks like my sandy-colored face under a Global Warming sun. I transverse down Madison Street carrying a plastic […]

September 24, 2025

In the Death of Your Boyhood and Birth of Your Teenagehood,

do you remember the hooded memory of when your father grilled a slaughter of steaks on a July 4th grill that swung open like a carnivorous mouth? In your teenagehood’s […]

September 24, 2025

To the Daughter I Won’t Father,

you’re shriveled up like a raisin within my raisin-skinned right testicle in a XY body I’ve claimed possession of since a C-section slice when my mother gifted me life under […]

August 13, 2025

Into Lawful Nature

At the beginning of a new episode during a Law & Order marathon, mom screeches out find the murderer. So I propel out the back door into unfilmed darkness defined by predator-on-prey […]

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Monetized Happiness is a poetry collection that shows economic disparity, homelessness, parenthood, and urban living in Oakland and San Francisco, California. American happiness is monetized. When people sleep on sidewalks and others sleep under roofs, are we living in an equal country? A reader is left to decide on their own.

POETRY BOOKS

“To my mind, Monetized Happiness is Keith Gaboury’s best book yet, a poetic opera to Oakland and San Francisco.”

Richard Loranger, author of Mammal and Unit of Agency

"Still Human is a boundary-defying romp—visceral, surreal, full of animals and erasures, personified body parts, and gritty confessions."

Hollie Hardy, author of Lions Like Us and How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems

"Gaboury’s ambitious, lofty poems [in The Cosmos is Alive] celebrate science fiction from its pulpy beginnings to its futureless present."

Peter Jay Shippy, author of How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic

"The Boy Born With a Pinhole Heart is a moving collection dealing with family history, particularly a grandfather’s heroism and decline."

John Skoyles, author of Suddenly It’s Evening: Selected Poems

"The compelling prose poems in Oakland, I’m Not Dead are infused with surreal imagery, humor, and memorable vignettes."

Terry Tierney, author of The Poet’s Garage and Why Trees Stay Outside

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