Merry Christmas, Merry Crisis
Matrix Christmas Eve
Got a few ideas
What can be retrieved?

Trust is the skeleton key
Some don't trust me yet
Some they never will
But to some I set

Reading is like volleyball
They spike. You have to dig.
I still walk the little way.
The little way the big.

Love is patient and kind
The first play is the bump
The spike comes late and last
Thumpety thump thump thump.

I'm actually very American
The basketball, the Air Force, the ****
A man of constant sorrow
Lonely and forlorn

Though I'm very American
I do not enlist
At my best, my very best
I indeed resist

             Ignorance ain't bliss

10:37
See my sons today
Will I ever get to Istanbul?
La playa for to play

My mom was from Toledo
Ohio not yon Spain
My life is little joys
Amidst a lot of pain

English breakfast tea
I sit at the bar
Exoplanets spin
I wonder if you are

Inhabited or not
Are we, in fact, alone?
Diana Walsh Pasulka
The call of the unknown

               Roam Rome

George W. killed hundreds of thousands
Paints in peace in Texas
I eat veggie dogs
Haunted by my exes

John Brown, what a fighter!
America's good terrorist
I now live near Harper's Ferry
It glitters in the sun

Richard Nixon bombed Cambodia
Killed his own at Kent State
I went to Angkor Wat
And San Francisco's Dragon Gate

Tecumseh and the Prophet
Book I'm reading now
Lives of Defiance
Tecumseh get your gun.

Free verse makes me ramble

I think of childhood
Basketball
Mark
Heather
California sun
La Florida beach

I can't quite get free
The past chains me
I walk with a limp
I sleep late and long

Another Somebody Done Somebody
                     Wrong Song