Paul in black on Franklin Street
("Disobedience to tyrants
   Is obedience to God")

He speaks of Dead Poets,
The Good Shepherd, Matt Damon,
More Cowbell, MI6, Amityville Horror,
The Great Gatsby, Sacred Indian burial grounds, Christopher Walken, Robin Willians, Patch Adams, etc...

I listen. And listen. And listen

Gatsby believed in the Green Light.
So do I.
Always a pleasure, he says to me.
Good night, Paul. Good night.

Painful, lonely, maybe meaningless
But still we journey on

No dear deer appear tonight. No mystery.
                             No fawn.

I miss my Irish grandmother
Holy Toledo! Now long gone.

The Dead just disappear.
Eternal Night? Rosy fingered dawn?

Q said, Where God guides
There God provides
And he mentioned a church named
St. Joseph

The election is near
We fight against fear
I look for the Open
not closeth

My life has been filled with much chaos
Especially in these last few years

The smiles always are welcome
But they can't take away all the tears

Shakespeare in Staunton is wondrous
La Mancha on Broadway we saw

Fr. Greeley and the young girl in Baghdad
Against imperial crazed Shock and Awe

Just because the end is quite hopeless
Doesn't mean we give up the fight

I walk home in quiet and focus
The stars and moonlight in sight

The mystery of race
The beauty of her hair and face
The search for alien life in outer space...


                  Oh well I wonder!

Years of tutoring excellent
Korean middle school students
In Northern Virginia

And stopping in Seoul
On the way back to DC
From Taipei

The Hermit Kingdom
But modern today

In gratitude.  And for the future:
I pray.

Red Pine in the Changnan Mountains
Listening to a quiet Daoist hermit:

I'm just a Mountain Man
Sometimes I string together words
And syllables in a way
That really doesn't make much sense

You should ignore everything I just told you.

Would you like some tea?

Plato spoke of the World Soul
As if Nature is a body

Ice caramel macchiatto
Not a hot toddy

Won ton soup in Taipei
Miso in Seattle

Despair makes me terrified
So I have to battle

Time is the Destroyer
Shiva is one too

But I like Arthur Edens
And I will try for you

             Karma true.