For Rodney and for Harold
Thanks and gratitude

And for Dylan's new cd
Containing multitudes

Feeling 51
My beard grown long and white

For my three young sons
Protection and delight

Cowboy conversation
I listen in the night

Into the Hidden Valley
But I only know the title

I asked in Ireland
I think about the Bible

Prayers for my friend Mark
California calls

Jumpshots with Joseph
My green basketball

    
    Around the World.

Missing my Beloved Dead
Sadness inside my head
Deathliness and dread

          Missing!

Kensington where Chesterton was born
And where T.S. Eliot died

Kensington on SNL
Where Will Ferrell shows George W. Lied

A stupid, unjust, and criminal war
George W. destroyed Iraq

Killed hundred of thousands of innocents
Can never take that back

Created ISIS as well
With his Shock and Awe attack

He stands condemned by history
May his memory never come back

I can do anything I want with words
Said genius Jimmy Joyce

I stood next to his statue
In Dublin with my boys

Heard Finnegan's Wake at Granny Brown's
Read a bit in Finnegans Wake

Here Comes Everybody!
Erin Go Bragh y Lady of the Lake.

There seems to me too much misery, he said
Which explains Darwin's denial

Cannot be a loving God
Nature does not smile

I do not deny the misery
Or the terror of predation

But the beauty is a mystery
As is musical elation

Birds and whales also sing
Bats use echolocation

There may well be more hidden songs
In this curious creation

And silence holds hidden secrets
Like mystical contemplation

You've touched me with your words
I reach you with my mind

Our life may be Absurd
But she is dark and kind

I wish my death could be
Beneficial to the blind

Jake from the Jarhead clan
An Avatar; a sign