My son gets his first job
Produce at the grocery store
I walk around the water
Inner Harbor, Baltimore

Keep him moving forward
Better days ahead
Keep him keepin' on
Quietly I said:

                 Thank you, Life.

Susan really is that wonderful
Gentle, caring, kind
In Kamakura snow
In Bangkok Buddhamind

Gotta take my medicine
Keep me right on track
George W. Lied
Then he destroyed Iraq

One life only
Mostly ghostly absurd
2 out in the 7th
Men on first and third

                  Word!

The Holy Land is not holy
Violence, relentless strife
We need another planet
One with alien life

Women are the wish
The wish that doesn't come true
Fatherhood is gratitude
I give thanks for you

               My 3. I do.

Gonna talk to my son today
Gonna say callooh! callay!
Exoplanets spin
Subtle is the Way

Just ordinary life
Courage in the strife
Protection please protection
Both for and from my wife

                day by day

Just the little poems
Little lonely life
Never quite at ease
Relentlessly the strife

Gratitude for my sons
Slowly, day by day
Talk on the telephone
All along the way

                Forward!

Generalized anxiety disorder
I just can't relax
Foot tapping, tapping
Anxiety attacks

Poetry buried so deep
Restless in the night
Restless in the day
Gatsby's green light

               Flight!

Talk to my son tonight
Ordinary day
Thankfully he's alright
More than words can say

              xie xie