David Markson
   Als Ick Kan
         Selah

Patience is an antidote to anxiety
Wait. Patiently wait.
All of us in San Francisco
At the Golden Gate

2 prayers for Susan
3 prayers for Cate
Exoplanets spin
Something radiates

                Water!

My father went to a Jesuit college
St. Louis U.
I joined the JVC
Jesuits breaking through

I've read America magazine
Since 1992
Postcards in the mail
Reno Rendezvous

       Horton Hears a Who

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!