It's good that I'm not important
Live my boring life
Take my son to Wild Wings
Wisdom in the strife

Tired. Exoplanets.
Red Pine on the Way
I fall, I fall, I fall
Nothing gold can stay

Stay Gold, Pony Boy
Robinson middle school
Cordelia is truly noble
Harold Bloom a Fool

I begin again today
Small steps. One at a time.
Call my son, riverrun
Cranberry juice with lime

        Seattle is Sublime

In the time that's left
Some good thing
Fatherhood
Deeds that sing

Proclivities
Tormenting me
Patience please
2033

Lots of rest
Silent plea
Als Ick Kan
Xie xie ni

Ireland was misty grey music in the pubs book of Kells me at the post office with my boys bus ride through the country Galway cliffs of moher little apartment Finnegan's wake the belle of Belfast misty grey in the water and the sky

                    Aye! Aye! Aye!

It's chaos, this changing world
Chaos for all to feel
My soul within me trembles
Nothing is for real

The Buddhists stay serene
I too meditate
San Francisco Zen
At the Dragon Gate

She's kind, caring, pretty
A diamond in the rough
I'm 54 and falling
At times I've had enough

Gonna sleep, Gonna sleep
Dreaming of the Deep
Exoplanets spin
Aliens to keep?

Awake at 5:41
Lonely cool before dawn
3 dear deer
1 dear fawn

See my son today
Maybe basketball
Californ I A
Maybe Valley Mall

Into San Francisco
Moroccan mint tea
Exploritorium
Science for my 3

Cool grey city of love
Mist along the shore
We sleep in silent peace
4044

                 forgotten lore

I told her I miss her
In that I spoke the truth
Time tick tocks
I fall from my youth

Oranges in California
Moroccan mint tea
Hummus and pita bread
3333

Took the London train
Near the Scottish border
I serve the Secret Flame
No one in my order

I like my green couch
Music, DVDs
If she were on top
Please, baby, please

                  Willow trees

So I don't like the Dalai Lama
But I do like Thich Nhat Hanh
A few days in Copenhagen
A few days in Gamla Stan

My sons like video games
Birthdays coming soon
2 in July
1 in Flaming June

I went to three universities
Walked around a fourth
Republicans are corrupt
Remember Ollie North?

Toured the Vatican once
No desire to go again
Seattle in the snow
3710

                 muy bien.

Edgar Allen Poet
Quaint and curious forgotten lore
Me and Pythagoras
Inner Harbor, Baltimore

I would like to go to Germany
Also Istanbul
Will I die in pain?
Will I feel the pull?

My son and I watch movies
Unwell as I age
Mr. David Markson
I like to turn his page

Life is mostly sadness
The human being is a Mess
She's gentle, caring, kindness
My love I did confess

                   Guess.

So I'm against the Republican party
Its violence and its lies
Sacramento, California
I am one who tries

Coach Brian Katz
Timothy and the Cay
5 paragraph essay
Dawn goes down to day

I've got a monk in me
Got an atheist too
I like St. Bruno
I like Albert Camus

France on my honeymoon
Drank tea outside Chartres
My life is a bit ridiculous
Is it also a work of art?

             When I depart ...

Women are more interesting
But, alas, not for me
Best time we ever had
Beauty Baltic Sea

My oldest son likes to fish
Soon he drives alone
All these little poems
On my little black cell phone

Rain again today
Hath the rain a father?
2 prayers for my sons
3 prayers for her daughters

I like Michael Clayton
I like Star Trek too
I'm tired. Exoplanets.
Comin' home to you

      Do wah Diddy do

Politics is sad despair
And unhinged reckless rage
I like Moby ****
I like Turn the Page

Jerusalem was brown
Tel Aviv was blue
Tokyo was amazing
I might die in you

It's cruel, this old wastrel world
Gorillas in the mist
We search for ***** in Oceanside
I can't forget her kiss

Little brown chapel
Richard Rodriguez book
I sleep late and long
Restaurants. Do not cook.

             I take a look.

Red Pine in the Chungnan mountains
Drinks a little tea
Me in Dublin, Ireland
Man said meant to be

I might take a little walk
Soon to see my 3
One day older.
Xie xie. Xie xie ni.

                       We.

Israel dispossessed
700000 people when it was founded
The Palestinians need a home
Free from Occupation

I walk around the campus
See the Confucius statue
Walk the library
Mason education

Saw my sons last night
Japanese food
A little NBA
They are my salvation

                 Grazie

The right wing is violence
The left wing does not fly
I am getting older
Not her kinda guy

I wanna see the beach again
Will I see Japan?
Movies, music, books
Solitary Man

America began in genocide
Maybe how it ends
American life is lonely
I miss my high school friends

Thomas Aquinas died silent
I might die silent too
Ashes to the ocean
Hello, Marylou

                2222

Said Crazy Horse

(who was sane, of course)

Just one life
And now I'm sick and older
My feelings for her
Still they sacred smolder

I'll die and be forgotten
Lonely as the rain
Just picked up a book
About Barcelona, Spain

Ben Shapiro is a racist
So is Marjorie Taylor Greene
Rainy Night in Georgia
I remember Ben Vereen

I miss Sacramento
Best wishes always for Mark
I fear Eternal Night
In the ashes is the spark

                City of Ember!

Dante had Beatrice
I have Susan Darlene Meek
Just one email
Do we find just what we seek?

I might go back to California to die
Cool grey city of love
Rainy Night in Georgia
Exoplanets up above

Horton Hears a Who
Sometimes so do I
Carolina blue
Water in the sky

Dark hair, blue eyes
Caring, gentile voice
Die in California?
Maybe, Josiah Royce.

            Tahoe!

It's not gonna work
But I do it anyway
Desperation
Lonely nights

Futility
Tidal pools
Sacramento
Mystic flights

Futility

        Fights.

Hope is very rare
The world is mostly pain
Grey day blues today
Tomorrow Purple Rain

Free, free Palestine
Israel is cruel
Gonna see my son today
Basketball after school

Zero sugar lemonade
Vegetarian burritos
Santa Rosa son
My parents from Toledo

Death comes for the Archbishop
And for me and you
Silent Buddhist nights
Carolina blue

                 9022

Our politics is Abysmal
A madhouse for all to see
I lay in bed and lonely
3333

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
I wanna see the beach again
3022

Tokyo at night
Very very late
Miso soup and rice
8088

Susan Darlene Meek
My bipolar mind
JMU, please be true
Johnny 99

No one important
I walk the park alone
Rain in the lamplight
Little black cell phone

I wish I was a shaman
Protection for my tribe
But instead I am a patient
Coke Zero I imbibe

California Coast
La Florida thunderstorm
If I held her close
Warm, baby, warm

Walked the beach in Nice
I like miso and rice
Thich Nhat Hanh in Berkeley
And at Mason. Very nice.

                London twice.

Michael Clayton, horses and breath
        Arthur Edens reversaleth
      I am Shiva the God of death!

Tolkien is comfort to me
I have been to Oxford
Ohio childhood
Gandalf the White

Amber at UNC
Me in the hospital
Deadening futility
My Mr. Spock kite

The Diabetes might **** me
Bipolar roller
Wish I was a shaman
Perpetual our plight

Detroit Fox Theater
Springsteen on the stage
Darkness in the audience
Snow. Mexico. Light.

Lotus flower in the mud
Wait. Watch. Wonder.
Silent Tokyo nights
Lost in Translation

Madness in my soul
Dr. Cornel West
Man of La Mancha
American education

Saw the Book of Kells
Trappist monastery
Young sons sung
Paternal dedication

Time tick tocks
In my solitude
Susan Darlene Meek
Silent meditation

The stories about Jesus are myths
They didn't actually happen
I walk along the beach
Starfish in my hand

Black man called me teach
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
A little late night listening
Bruce Springsteen y the E Street Band

I was in Japan for two weeks
Rieko and Takahiro
Lost in Translation
Solitary Man

Futility. Futility.
Lay in bed and lonely
I drift, I drift toward death
Silent ceiling fan

                   Rain!

Desperately Seeking Susan
O those 80s ladies!
Denver, Colorado
2 green lights

Postcards in the mail
Patientia
More than one life only
Marksonian insights

A little rain today
Hath the rain a father?
Wonder used book store
I hope I sleep in peace

Pythagoras
Plotinus
Heraclitus
Greece.

American history is violence
Cristobal Colon-izer
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Is crazy. I despise her.

Rain in Charleston
A little Reno snow
Ice picks on your steel shores
O we o we o

I'd like to move to Stockholm
Or maybe Paris, France
Kiss her in the moonlight
Lord Shiva does his dance

The Buddha sits in silence
Tiger in the forest
The verses are the Blues
The Gospel is the chorus

                   We.

Albert Camus in Paris
And with me at JMU
Shenandoah Valley
3772

I like those French cathedrals
Honeymoon at Chartres
Save me from *******!
Save me, sacred art.

Misty rain at the beach
Time tick tocks
I walk in bare feet
Walk without my socks

See my son today
See my Quinlin Jai
Some good thing to do
Before my time to die

          Something Thai

Brilliance is overrated
Everybody dies in the end
The silence is eternal
Silence be my friend:

               Pretend.

I'd like my death to mean something
Something I can't understand
Me gusta senyorita
I want to be your man

Vegetarian burritos
Basketball in the park
Tragic misunderstanding
Sacramento Mark

America magazine
Me at Seattle U.
Mario Cuomo
Who is God? Yes, Who?

Ordinary lifetime
Dylan in DC
Silent desperation
Please protect my 3

          xie xie ni

with Camus
Life is Absurd
suffering
mumbling word

not really conversation
glancing blow
monsoon rain
Reno snow

black smoke sky
rodeo
when i die
on you go

French cathedrals
Susan Meek
Reno snow
hide and seek

     theogeek

so i'm more northeren than southern california cool grey city of love sacramento in my childhood heather harrison kathryn orr mark hasik california has snow in lake tahoe my youngest son was born in santa rosa born at home no doc just a midwife and two doulas i jumped for joy when he arrived in this world, this world of misery and hope

                                                hope floats

I drift, I drift toward death
Dread annihilation
I read the Writer's Almanac
Un Escritor

What if I died in California?
Lake Tahoe snow
San Francisco Zen
4044

I first kissed her at the beach
Never forget that night
Say you, Say me
Gilead, Lenore

I've had homeless friends
Rode the free bus
Ate from the food bank
God bless the poor.

Saw the movie Gandhi
Saw Romero too
Moving. Very moving.
Religion breaking through

I've got an inner atheist
I like Albert Camus
France on my honeymoon
Pondicherry Zoo

I'd like to die abroad
Susan Meek not Sue
Kamakura Buddha
Maybe Sophia U.

My mother was very caring
Breast cancer *******!
Picasso's Guernica
Rothko green and blue

I have been to Copenhagen
Just for a few days
Little hotel room
Little breaking light

My son has a test today
Yesterday he studied
It's in his English class
Elie Wiesel's Night

German food today
Sauerkraut, Red Cabbage
3 kinds of cheese
Puzzling our plight

Susan Darlene Meek
Dark hair, blue eyes
Just one email
Who knows, she might?

Attack on Christendom
Soren Kierkegaard
Basketball in the park
And in my front yard

In my solitude
Restaurants alone
All these little poems
On my little black cell phone

Tecumseh on the Battlefield
The day Detroit fell
She's not here with me
But I truly wish her well

Seattle in the misty rain
Georgia on my mind
54 and falling
I hope you treat me kind

In my solitude
I write and walk and wait
2037
8088

How I wish for destiny!
Destiny not Fate
Leonard Cohen in London
Me without my mate

Kobayashi Maru
Go boldly. Elevate.
Human life is Exile
Where is home? Debate.

Inner Harbor, Baltimore
               4044
         Un escritor

Long term view
Slowly guacamole
Probably won't work
Do it anyway

Death comes for the Archbishop
And for me and you
tdw
Live to write another day.

I admit my desperation
Lost soul on the run
Boredinary Blues
Taipei 101

The sadness hits me hard
Gonna see my son
Twilight. Twilight.
And the Day is Done

                Movies!

Long ago, my basketball friend Kevin
            Bert be home Blyleven
                           Amos 3:7

Today I write one for Dr. Thomas
Kind, caring, funny
Student of Karl Barth
Lover of Wolfgang Amadeus

Mentor to me
Now dead and gone
The professor's life
Books, movies, music

I remember you, my teacher
Thank you for your kindness
Rest in peace
Go Dukes!

Thai food for lunch
Painful isolation
Som tam, panang curry
Miss my medication

I have been to Bangkok
Traffic speeding by
3 dear deer
I Thai Wai

              One for Ry!

I'm never gonna see my mom again
There is no life after death
But still she lives in me
Quiet, gentle breath

I miss her every day
For more than 23 years
All my hopeless dreams
All my fulsome fears

           Tears, idle tears

I'm gonna reread Moby ****
And All the King's Men
Embers by Sandor Marai
San Francisco Zen

Encounters with Chinese Hermits
But I don't know when
Maybe 2024
Maybe 3710

                    Muy bien.

A little ****** at times
A little Rock n Roll
Susan Darlene Meek
Midnight's broken toll

Up late watching movies
Psychology is pain
Sacramento, California
Jane! Jane! Jane!

The Buddha sits in silence
I sit silent too
Bruce Springsteen song
Souped up 72

I hope I die in sleep
I thank Life for my sons
Serious as a heart attack
Pero un pequito fun

              She's the One!

So I'm against the Republican party
It's racist at its center
Time tick tocks
All men enter

I watch the Elvis movie
I lay in bed and wonder
Viva Las Vegas!
A little rolling thunder

No real hope
Falling at 54
I walk in the rain
Inner Harbor, Baltimore

                Si senyor.

The United States is a bad joke
The spectacle of Donald Trump
Cheerleader tramps are the best kind
Born to run and jump

Tired. Exoplanets.
Ordinary days
No need for pity
No need for praise

Tidal pools in Monterrey
Lake Tahoe snow
Movies with my son
On and on we go

Mr. David Markson
Once in Mexico
This is Not a Novel
E I E I O

             Yo Romeo!

Eventually it all comes out
The good, the bad, the ugly
I play a little basketball
Movies on tv

Boredinary blues
No one important
Die and be forgotten
Woe is me. Woe is me.

I like taco trucks
Vegetarian burritos
Cousins in Toledo
Please protect my 3

If I die at night
When the darkness comes
Corpse to the fire
Ashes to the sea

              Yea verily.

Troubling proclivities
Band on the run
Maybe baby baseball
Gonna see my son

Diabetes might **** me
Probably not the bipolar
Vegetarian burritos
Slowly growing older

Chicago in the snow
California sun
O so serious
But a little fun

Theologies all broken
Huey Lewis and the News
My comfy green couch
A good place to snooze

                tick tock ...