I wrote all these little poems
Un pequito fun
Vienna in the winter
Taipei 101

Once I was a teacher
Now I'm just a dad
Edgar Allen Poet
Sweet Sir Galahad

                       Hope!

Tired. Dead inside.
Gratitude for fatherhood.
I remember Malahide.

     I hope she says: he tried.

I get the falafel wrap
Smiling, sitting down
Everybody knows
I'm not a man of much renown

Music on the stereo
Anguish in my soul
55 and falling
Springsteen rock n' roll

I like the sound of the rain
Gentle in my mind
I like the speeding train
I hope you treat me kind

I like the softfall snow
Vienna for three days
So much I do not know
Vienna surely stays

                  Travel!

Biden is too old.
Trump is too evil.
I'm tired this afternoon
Tryin' to make it through

A little Chinese food
It's hot. Very hot.
Ordinary dailiness
Rothko green and blue

               And you?

We make it through another day
Tak tak tak.
Future full of fear
But tonight Legos and fun

                 my sons!

boring daily life
nothing much to do
rain in the trees
Carolina blue

eating drinking sleeping
take my many meds
will anybody miss me
after I am dead?

                  dread