conflicts start
with incitement
so incite a conflict

no, don't start
a conflict, conflict
should be avoided

yes, that is correct
I am righteous,
an upstander to wrong

I am neutral, I am
at peace with myself
and my emotions

you ask me to come
but you leave instead

what did I do to deserve this?

the road in was mean
with its winding and
slithering silhouette
like the tail of the
hundred-year-old rat

a forgotten fortress
witness of warring
standing on its last legs
the moss fuzzing over
the walls like a disease

the empty throne sitting
in its grand red robes, is it
stained with dye, or blood?
only the long-dead king or
the hundred-year-old rat knows.

in the hole by the throne
there lives a rat. the one
hundred-year-old rat that
has seen conquest and contest
succeed and succession

and when the one
hundred-year-old rat
comes to pass on
no one will know what
has happened here.

serene - the water-surface
smooth as a silken sheet
seven shamrocks spectate
the shoreline.

only minute ripples, like
brazen bumps, built like
a beat to a song, rhythm
a rhyme wrought 'round.

the color resembling a
pale rose-white coat
laid on a bed of lush
green brushes and tree.

the pier provides a
picturesque photo-spot
its reflection as deep
as the hole in my head.

by the row-boat, there rests
a singular rubber duck
as yellow as the sun
on a sweltering day

as the cicadas chirp the
buzz of the critters and
animal-things and the
woosh of the wind.

chuck norris can save you
chuck norris can save me
no need to fear, chuck norris is here

help! im stuck in a pit of my own grief
no need to fear, chuck norris is here

help! im dangerously overweight!
no need to fear, chuck norris is here

help! im slightly tired and home is still 2 block away!
no need to fear, chuck norris is here

help! no one respects me!
no need to fear, chuck norris is here

what would happen
if chuck norris were
to disappear?

would anybody remain
to listen to me cry?

would anybody remain
to help me die?

would anybody remain
to make my life
a red carpet walk
straight to heaven?

my words filled with
notions of three
three things

the three wise monkeys
but I see evil
but I hear evil
but do I do evil?

three parts of psyche
id does desires
ego does thought
superego does justice
but do I need justice?

three segments of soul
logos thinks
thymos keeps
and what does
eros do?
it drives me on.

the third gender

do you love me?
that was a
rhetorical question.
the rhetoric

my logos
says that that
was a lie

my thymos
says that that
was the truth

my eros
says that that
I love you