All that Bangkok traffic
All that Asian rain
Rick Steves in Barcelona
And in Toledo, Spain

I have known anxiety
Hospitals and Jail
Life is suffering
And the inner wail

GMU today
Paris on my mind
Yo soy un isolato
I hope you treat me kind

Call my youngest son
Grateful for the phone
2 years of Latin
Honeymoon in Rome

            American Cosmic!

Boston in the winter
Icy Charles River
Me in Taipei, Taiwan
Teaching again the Giver

Basketball with my son
Gracias xie xie
Taipei 101
Silent is the Way

Leonard Cohen in London
Quite late along
They don't let a woman **** you
Not in the Tower of Song

Big blue Reno sky
Fog on the Golden Gate Bridge
I miss being a teacher
Give my best to Sage Ridge

Bangkok has the rain
The monks, the cars, the ***
Nearly 40 years later
Still thinking of my ex

Kamakura snow
In Dublin meant to be
Chicago for the scholars
Stockholm for the sea

Me and Susan Meek
Horizontally
But I live all alone
Hear my silent plea:

                  We!

Teaching Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay
New England in the Fall
My sons: callooh! callay!

Missing Susan Meek
Just a fantasy
Ordinary life
Please protect my 3

                  Si.

No one important
Live and die. Live and die.
Wandering the library
Wondering how to fly

Mr. Charles Darwin
Exoplanet sky
Mr. David Markson
New York City try

Ms. Susan Meek
So alone am I
My hand upon your cheek
Your gentle saving sigh ...

I'm not the Prophet Mohammed
I fight no religious wars
I struggle to survive
Tempted by the ******

Quiet little libraries
Reading alone again
The silence is eternal
Silence be my friend

Read a little Salman Rushdie
His story of the knife
Moby **** kabobs
My truly troubled wife

Life is isolation
I drift I drift I drift
Texts to my dad
Thank you kindly for the lift

                            Ole!

Got to see my son
Basketball at night
Downtown DC
Wizards in the light

I once read theology
Now I take a bath
Pythagoras of Samos
The philosophy of math

Should I drive to Mason?
Should I see the school?
Cordelia is truly noble
Harold Bloom was a fool

Moby **** kabobs
Hummus, bread, and rice
Susan Darlene Meek
Said I'm strange but nice

               La Florida!