I like the Inner Harbor
I just walk around
Everybody knows
I am the newsboy of this town

America began in genocide
Slave labor too
I see all the animals
At the Pondicherry Zoo

3 prayers for Chicago
Or should I say Chiraq?
I like ACDC
I like Back in Black

Fatherhood is joy
Thank you, Life, o yes
Will I die in pain?
Anybody's guess

        Break the press.

The United States is a corrupt country
Trumpfucks on the rise
I take a little nap
Movies are the prize

I might die at night
I might die alone
All these sprawling poems
On my little black cell phone

I'm kinda California
Sacramento days
No need for pity
No need for praise

Susan Darlene Meek
I wish but wish in vain
Tokyo to Kyoto
Shinkansen bullet train

                    Help!

All the news is bad again
Kiss your dreams goodbye
But rainstorms at the beach
And exoplanets sky

Once I did teach
Poems for the tweens
Now I'm just a dad
But I remember Things Not Seen

I like Metro trains
Dinner in DC
Rode the bus in Dublin
Man said meant to be

I write because I ...
Ain't no tongue can tell
Gonna reread Moby ****
Me and Ishmael

I'm tired and I'm lonely
Awake at 3 a.m.
Every morning, Every morning
Try to begin again

Much time alone
Call my middle son
He was born in Taiwan
Near Taipei 101

The Buddha sits in silence
I too meditate
I am afraid of death
8088

Hath the rain a father?
Taipei Taiwan typhoons
Rothko blue and green
In our kitchen Flaming June

        Long live Lina and Doon!

Free, free, free Palestine
Students getting arrested
35, 000 killed
Narratives contested

The United States is corrupt
Complicit in genocide
Students do resist
Nowhere to run, Nowhere to hide

        Too many people have died

Life is suffering
Help me suffer through
Vegetarian fajitas
Pondicherry Zoo

Als Ick Kan
The best that I can do
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Muslim Christian Jew

Lonely in the night
Carolina blue
My Irish eyes are green
Horton Hears a Who

                  Do you?

Ben Shapiro is a racist
The American right is wrong
My mother and father live
In a Springsteen song

Exoplanets spin
Aliens among?
We gotta get outta this place
While we are still young

But now I'm 54
Not in good health
Just a little work
Not very much wealth

In but not of America
Taipei, Taiwan typhoons
A few days in Copenhagen
I sing the Dylan tune

Jimmy Reed indeed
Free, free Palestine
I plant three mustard seeds
I wish that she was mine

                Johnny 99.