Here are two poets with double the dark humor and poetic banter. Relatable poetry about life on life's terms.
· 2025
You walk out the door for work on a Monday morning and immediately drop your coffee in the apartment hallway. You take a bad step on the stairs and almost do the splits. It's raining and your umbrella is in the car which is in the parking lot 500 feet away. People dash out in front of you while you're driving, a clap of thunder almost literally scares the crap out of you. Your office badge won't work, computer doesn't boot up, you're late clocking and you don't know it but this is the best your day is going to be. Imagine every emotion felt in this short time and these are the same emotions you'll feel reading this poetry collection. When you're done reading it you'll want to cry or take a shower to wash the depressive grit of life from your skin. Or you may want to cry in the shower and get them both out of the way. This is life and life is poetry but you will most definitely feel a small sense of hope when you're done. These words are grounded in reality and sometimes you have to face the reality of life because running away is only a temporary fix. Buckle up, take a breath and know that all of it, even life itself is only temporary. That tiny glimmer of hope in your gut may only be the size of a glowing ember from an almost-spent cigarette, but that is all you need.
· 2007
Ken Tomaro is the youngest of four siblings. Orphaned at age twelve, he has spent a lifetime trying to answer the question, aWhere do I belong?a His cynical approach to life is somewhat softened by an equally cynical sense of humor, but he still retains an overwhelming desire to see how it all ends. It was in his early thirties that he was diagnosed with depression and anxiety disorders. Since then he has dealt with family dysfunctions, a series of bad jobs, bad relationships, and an overall lack of direction in life. Not wanting to be a statistic in what he calls a adoped upa society, he has chosen to live his life without the help of any mood-altering prescription drugs. Can he be his own therapist? Anything is possible, but understanding the stories of his past may be the key to figuring out his future.
· 2021
This is not the poetry you remember reading in school. Ken Tomaro is a writer living in Cleveland, Ohio whose work centers around life with depression, always honest and mostly grounded in reality. His poetry style is a mix of poignant, sometime angry, sometimes bitingly sarcastic observations, depressive realities and mundane things that make life what it is. All those things most people would never think about
· 2018
Ken Tomaro takes all those everyday things you never think about and puts them into poetry. Dark, gritty but always real. People often read to escape reality but his writing is a stark reminder that sometimes you just have to face life rather than run from it. This is the third collection of poetry by author Ken Tomaro. His work has also been published in several literary magazines.
· 2017
If Charles Bukowski and Harvey Pekar had a child, this collection of poetry would be the ugly, seething afterbirth. Dark, gritty and honest, all those things you never wanted to know about depression and were afraid to ask. This is Ken Tomaro's second published work.
· 2021
The ugly side of depression. This collection of poetry is the second full length book after Home is where the headstones are. These poems have a glaringly angrier tone to them. I felt it important enough to put them out there so that people might see the toll mental illness can take on a person. All i can say is, keep reading. It gets better.
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· 2017
Life is messy, especially when you live with depression. Fragmented thoughts, bits of ideas and pieces of nothing can flow into beautiful poetry even when everything around you seems dark. Poetry, like life, is not perfect, doesn't always fall into place and can be just as random as each new day.