No one important
Lots of time alone
I wish I was a shaman
I threw a Rolling Stone

I've been to Canada
Two Blue Jays games
Stanley Park, Vancouver
She is my secret flame

The American right is wrong
They call the National Guard
Tents in the forest
Tents in the yard

Hope for Chicago
Leonard Cohen in Montreal
The unimaginable zero summer
Then the Charlotte Fall

                   Right y'all?

The Wall Street Journal
Is full of hate
Something in me
Radiates
Please destiny
Not fearful Fate
Stealing home
Safe at the plate

       Go Guardians!

The Republican party is ignorance
Mixed with violence and racism
Nixon destroyed Cambodia
George W. destroyed Iraq

Free, free, free Palestine
The time has come, it's now
Gaza is under
Genocidal attack

Jerusalem is brown
Tel Aviv is blue
New York City nights
Carolina blue

Basketball today
Thumbs up, Chicago
St. Catherine of Siena
The Moor not Iago

                Wait for it!

The Episcopal churches are quaint
Her father is a priest
I've been to Paris, France
I've seen the mystic East

3 prayers for Chicago
Lady of the Lake
Sitting down to dinner
Every cake you bake

Love is the 7th wave
And the finest thing around
The silence is eternal
We disappear without a sound

Northern California
Southeast Asia too
Jesuit high school teachers
Kabbalistic Jews

                    7072

The silence is eternal
And it calls my name
I am drawn to it repeatedly
As a moth is drawn to flame

I walk the empty diamond
I spend much time alone
Desperately seeking Susan
Little black cell phone

Fatherhood is joy
Young sons sung
Stockholm to Helsinki
Aliens among

The silence is eternal
Snowfall shunyata
Sleep perchance to dream
Merciful Allah

                   Patientia

Siena on my honeymoon
Walked around the town
Vienna from Jerusalem
Not a man of much renown

Read Simone Weil
The Iliad, the poem of force
Dr. Thomas told me
JMU of course

Sunlit Italy
Pasta, good red wine
Roman holiday
Hiding the divine

Ms. Jennifer Botta
Jackie Graziano
Providence, Rhode Island
My grandmother's piano

                    Grazie

Carolina Inn
Outside is the fire
Room 137
She's the object of my desire

Boring daily life
I drift, I drift toward death
Try to calm myself
Quiet slowly breath

European history
Cathedrals found in France
A little mango lhassi
Lord Shiva does his dance

Solitude, silencio
Empty Diamond nights
Susan Darlene Meek
Two green lights

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