most folks notice when they’re on a roll
when the file and rank line up squarely
an easy downhill enchants the soul
with whispers that cover logic barely
to present a view of an easy street
while the dark fog curls at your feet
hiding the footed ground of years
while an empty counterbalance cheers


Saturday, October 26, 2013

when roots are free the plant will grow
but no one measures how far it is to go
by earth,
field,
plow stone,
shine,
air,
rain

the mass of a living world remain
an untold mystery behind curt pages
of the driving soul and the spirit wages


Saturday, October 26, 2013

bypass the normal reaction to art very concrete
is usually how it relates very concrete
to the reality that surrounds us very concrete
in very concrete mannerisms
art is free of that announcing
it stands by itself in that brain wave search of nothing
this
for us on how to truly live
that’s where the effort comes in very concrete
the magnificent load of work
it takes to be abstraction sets an example alive
successful to none very concrete by itself
a strong feeling of self


Saturday, October 26, 2013

an alter ego I’ll invent
a handsome know it all agent
to whim and parry the low event
and explain the thought I really meant
it was so here then there it went
settled under the Sheik of Arabia’s tent
in desert camp under the firmament



Saturday, October 26, 2013

lets contemplate great deeds for a moment
the tower of ideas, empty without action
acclaimed thought, twisted word frames
leadership, in free fall without disciples
stone monuments, covered with rain
social contracts, swallowed by flaws
the birth of the new, the turning of the world

Saturday, October 26, 2013

there in the crawlspace
they found me
drugged and *****
they pulled and tugged
spoke their plans
to help deliver sobriety
change my outlook
toward the better
I resisted
any idea seemed as hopeless
as no plan at all
that was my comfort
my morning joe
how many times
must this be said
my days can be lived
by one way only
aimed at the end

Saturday, October 26, 2013

it was the corruption that caused the social upheaval
in this nation
not the correct response of an increase in cynicism
of the populace
toward institutions that serve only themselves


most people I know just want to have a family, a home, and eager to work for these things, a job that is meaningful and offers respect and as much challenge as the individual can handle and then the employee repays that respect in delivering it to the outside world everyday
the result would be a better world