Motorcycle taxi twilight
Markets. Monks. Rain.
    Malls once again.

         Bangkok!

Beauty and terror oh! so close
Rilke was quite right

He traveled in Muslim Europe
Islamic angels for insight

Mohammed heard the Koranic voice
Command him to recite

Water in the desert
The Alhambra at midnight

                     Delight!

American atheism is a difficult sell
If all men are created equal

Endowed by their Creator with rights
To take those away would be evil

George Will is an atheist
Steven Jay Gould an atheist too

Princeton, Oxford, Harvard
What would Jesus do?

Probably watch and wait
From his lonely wooden tower

Drowning men appear
But no man knows the hour

Guernica, 1937
**** terror (and one little flower)

Avatar
And the Tree of Souls

Ancestors
Broken tolls

Fantasy and Science Fiction
Silences and benedictions

History: Nightmare story
Mythology: story glory

We watch. We wait. We dream by night.
If we dream by day: Mystic flight?

He compares hip hop to an alarm clock
Which he means he just might hear it

America has been warned
White people do fear it

I myself am old school
Because I'm 51

170 hip hop songs
On the playlist of my son

I once wore Nikes
I still hoop, but slow

Adidas on my feetas
Both high top and low

Jonathan Swift
Inventor of Yahoo

Very knowing American in London
He knows what to do

The dollar bills are green
But the people now so blue

Vang Gogh saw such yellow!
He painted peasants shoes

I saw her standing there.
I had to dance. Wouldn't you?

No woman has ever created a single enduring work of art.

                    - Arthur Schopenhauer

Mr. Schopenhauer of Frankfurt, meet Ms. Dickinson of Amherst.

                      - me






This World is not Conclusion (373)

This World is not Conclusion.
A Species stands Beyond -
Invisible, as music -
But positive, as Sound -
It beckons, and it baffles -
Philosophy, don't know -
And through a Riddle, at the last -
Sagacity, must go -
To guess it, puzzles scholars -
To guess it, Men have borne
Contempt of Generations
And Crucifixion, shown -
Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies -
Blushes, if any see -
Plucks, at a twig of Evidence -
And asks a Vane the way -
Much Gesture from the pulpit -
Strong Hallelujahs roll -
Narcotics cannot still the Tooth
That nibbles at the soul -

               - (dearest) Emily Dickinson