The Little Words Mean the Most

This was us

 

No more now

without you barking reasonable orders

down grocery aisles

 

umm just a fool

without a queen

nor any great desire to feedly care look presume know

 

I ended when you upended

yet breath goes on

remainder is mine and

this so-called person left unpaired

only

can

maybe inspired enough

to roll our this maybe faith bin a bit further

a well-inflated tire

headed somewhere

 

Is there a poem to be scraped from Hadrian's Wall i've never walkedl?

 

know of it : saw the movie

each of us released beyond the wall

the mice run run free, wondering is

free a death-sentence

 

I heard a fly scrambling

released it out my office screen close call

unions are the close calls

of predators v. prey

any idiot can be a predator

no honor, sink in your claws and feast this once

being prey takes courage and love and humility

 

My First Kiss / My Last Days

 

Normal.

         You, too?

------

 

What's normal?

         I watched my surprise mentor/recent friend/devout Buddhist John Haydon die at 53, consumed by a cancer of absolutely no use. John had a use, to human progress anyway. The cancer overwhelmed John's torso and killed him, painfully.

         Guess not.

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Before my first kiss, I figured life would turn out pretty normal.

"In the end." Who knew what the END was? I was a freshman in high school.

I was a brain attached to a bag of bones attached to an unregulated sack of hormones.

Catastrophe at that point?

 

 

I doubt this goes anywhere useful; you tell me?

 

I see today that China's GDP has finally started to rise again

 

expressions of relief, WHEW

so maybe I didn't waste pillow time on the news

there's that couple of hours between deep sleep

and NOT so deep

and last night I wrote the Adventures of Billy the Fart

He ran one way ... but Billy's escape north was solidly blocked

 

SO Billy ran the other way ... but the only available sphincter was jammed shut, politicians shouting in Billy's face

and it went on from there

 

Adventures of Billy the Fart: the movie?

the Fuck You Manifesto

 

fill in your own blanks

 

you deserve it

lazy poem based on July 15 CNN headlines

 

don't care;

kinda celebrity care;

don't care except prurient;

muted response b/c true grieving maybe happened;

hope, just a bit

 

Fauci holds his ground against Navarro broadside: experts vs. contaminated dopes

Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Apple and others apparently hacked

American woman caught in a romance scam freed after being held by lover for more than a year

A 33-year-old tech CEO was found dismembered in a New York apartment, law enforcement source says

Biden opens up a 15-point lead over Trump in new national poll

 

 

we are

we wait

calling migrating monarches to munch

our acre of milkweed fields undisturbed

 

we hope

the June/July fireflies came on schedule

flaring matches against the stars

i wish john had seen it

city boy died in 2018 of liver failure

we are

we know

mortal is all

unless

 

unless

we are

we wait

we expect

 

now every morning

we swear to awake to

to promise

to some promise

to any promise we'll keep until tomorrow

 

 

https://www.crisisaid.org/

 

why not?

 

 

 

Window Closed poems: That, too

 

you have a vase

your head

 

that vase is in your hands

I i tell myself

 

every day

every few minutes

his face-mask reassures

or not enough; hers too

 

 

 

 

Window Open poems

 

there's so much to learn about patterns

you need to listen ~ I forget

crack a nearby window ~ I forget

a goose squadron transects the silence ~ I forget

a who-who will arrive and ask

a nudging wind will say breathe please

it's good for you

 

 

Excerpted from a record-breaking DM appeal, the 2020 iteration

 

With year-end thanks to a hospital system that never changed a word I wrote in a decade [hence experiments could happen] and Lisa Sargent [who upped my adjective game] and Dr.s Jen Shang and Adrian Sargeant [who introduced me to the inexhaustible wonders of "identity-based" fundraising]

 

... with your warm thanks!

Only you can award

Only you can deliver

Only you! ... But

... so that you can

as the highlight of

opinion than you.

I promise you:

As you probably know:

all the difference to

more heavily every year!

Your gifts

ONLY your

I hope you'll

Ever

Allow me