It's good I am unknown
I couldn't handle fame
Room 137
I holler out her name

Long live Prince4ever
Come the Purple Rain
Let's Go Crazy
Kinda cool insane

It had to be poetry
I had to tell her true
Satellite High
Late 80s JMU

         Susan Meek not Sue

                   I love you.

Let Jesus have his death
It wasn't for you or me
Huey Lewis and the News
1983

Thai food is tasty
She eludes my grasp
We walk in wild wind
Her holy hand I clasp

I'm a little bit ridiculous
A lotta bit absurd
Albert Camus at JMU
Breathe the fiery word

Lonely as the rain
Tired. Muddle through
Music in the market
San Francisco view

                Adieux.

The Buddha sits in silence
Knowing, gently knowing
Gonna see it through
2nd Noble truth

54 and falling
1987
3772
The lingering of youth

Boonsboro, Maryland
Yes, I lived in Reno
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth

Patientia
Cracked, but still beginning
Als Ick Kan
A little sweet tooth

I memorized God's Grandeur
And Nothing Gold Can Stay
I like the Day is Done
And the little way

I'm kinda California
2 years in Taipei
Silent desperation
Is the way I pray

She lives in Denver
I just stay away
If only I could send her
Maybe in the month of May

I seek but do not find
Surely we would play
I'm the solitary kind
No nay never nay

What writers want is readers
Someone they can tell
I live alone but need her
Me, Todd Witherell

Rain in the lamplight
Lake Tahoe snow
Silence in the cemetery
On and on we go

She might think I'm crazy
Aliens within
I showed her Dr. Thomas
Thomas means the Twin

Kiss her once for me
Gently, on the mouth
Sing me something brave
From way down South

                     Ole!

In love with her since 15
But to scared to tell
I wish but wish in vain
In vain, Ishmael

Denver has the Rockies
I don't have you
Sleep well - late and long
3032

             Absurd. Camus. JMU.

I've got a best and worst self
And several in between
Picasso's Guernica
Rothko blue and green

I throw a bounce pass
I play for my team
If you truly listen
You can hear the silent scream

My son is joy to me
So are his brothers
A little moonlight
Daughters become mothers

We don't live forever
Please courage at the end
Come the eternal Silence
Silence be my friend

                   Pretend.