I've got an atheist in me
A lot like Albert Camus
My life often Absurd
Carolina blue

France on my honeymoon
Ever ancient, Ever new
The Plague. The Rebel. The Stranger.
Pink Panther. Parlez vous?

Philosophy at JMU
University of Chicago
Cordelia, not King Lear
Othello, not Iago

Try to do my best
Loneliness is pain
Qualyxian the Quest
Santiago, Spain

       Purple Rain! Purple Rain!

I have contradictions
Blooming, buzzing confusion of life
Up in the night
Avoid the wifestrife

Gonna do my laundry today
Bene Gesserit knife
Dreams come from the Deep
Green light. Green light!

There is no life after death
Is there life before?
Lights go down on the city
Inner Harbor, Baltimore

Migrants on the run
God bless the poor
Un pequito fun
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                    Senyor!

Ireland was misty grey
A bit like San Francisco
Saw the James Joyce statue
Rode the Dublin bus

We are the Witherells
Qualyxian the Quest
When my dad dies
What will become of us?

                trust?

Dr. Thomas, my favorite teacher
Under a southern sky

When you retire, I asked him
Will you contemplate the Cosmic Why?

I'll tell you truly, Todd, he said
Truly, I will not lie

I plan to reread all of Karl Barth
And listen to Mozart every day until I die.