When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs
I am compelled to conclude
That man is the superior animal.

When I consider the curious habits of man
I confess, my friend, I am puzzled.

Life and the giver of life,
west, positive balance,
too hot to handle too cold to hold.

My research *****,
be here now,
not enough memory.

Needs a psychiatrist--
the womb--
the name of the grey aliens.

You must begin early
while it is cool and your head clear
discernment, a sharpened tine
probing the rocky darkness
for all things latent and destructive.

Be aware that the velvet sage
of the leaves belies their power
to take over every space, remember
roots burrow deep, anchoring in
fissures we don’t even know exist.

You must delve as close
to the origin as possible
or the **** you think eradicated
will bide its time, germinating
in the still secret ground

waiting for light
to penetrate the moist earth
waking the sprout
who voraciously pushes up and out
a curled blemish

in your otherwise carefully tended garden.

The body's still breathing, but I'm not quite alive,
A soul in standby, simply trying to survive.

"You're paying for something
you're not even getting,"
says the Lady in Purple.

Wizard of Oz.

"They're trying to pull
something over you."

The girls did twenty one jumps
in jump rope,
I have twenty one days until
my book is due,
"I spread joy" is number twenty one
and I skipped it,
and my computer is number twenty one.

Angel says she doesn't like Halloween
because a lot of "spirits"
come out on that day.

On the train:
"We're not going backwards,
we're just sitting backwards."

Something went wrong
in the calculations
but I don't mind,
it's not suppose to make sense.

Five plus sixty equals
elephant
in Disney Land.

The Lady in Purple tells me
I should bring another person
so next time they won't
fool the both of us.

I was going out of this world
but still in it,
I was going out of my mind
but still here
where the waves don't disappear.

I don't mind waiting
in the waiting room,
this necessary interlude
is working for me
wonders.

What is held on to.
We've got all the time
in the world in this
time span of half a second.

Walk with me
down the street
with a smile and a banner
of love raised up high.
And we'll shout to the cities
that belong to heaven
but taken by hellish
poverty of the soul,
we'll shout: "Hate causes lack!
Love is better than gold!
Be rich in peace, not money!"