Actually, I try to reach out
              In the Night
              Dear reader

I keep writing because ...
And ...
So....

                       Yo!

A few flakes today
Gently falling down
U2 and B.B. King
When Love Comes to Town

Kamakura snow
The Buddha sits in silence
History is a nightmare
Relentlessly the violence

Bob meets Charlotte
Lost in Translation
Tokyo by night
Quiet meditation

           Train Station

Nothing ever satisfies
Tale of sound and fury
George W. Lies
Iraqis weep and bury

I like quiet monasteries
Meditation hall wood and glass
Quiet Episcopal church
Deer sleeping in the grass

                 No Mass

Women are more interesting
And more dangerous, it's true
Seattle is grey and green
I listen to U2

Do the best I can
The best that I can do
Take my little rest
Read at Seattle U.

                  3772

Talk with my son
Keep him close. Close.
Christmastime again
Maybe even snow

Step by song
Carefully
Quietly
Slowly go

                   Yo

More than 60 percent
Of people in the United States
Have not read a book
From beginning to end
Since adolescence.

                 If then.

Wonder ye then at the fiery Trump?