Some say America will end in Fire.
Some in ICE.
From what I've seen
Of ******* racist desires
I hold with those who favor Fire.
But if it had to perish twice
The cultivation of ICE white hate
In a fatuous foray
To again be Great
Is an ancient demagogic device.
And would suffice.

Trip to the dentist
But my youngest son is sick
Please good rest
Might reread Moby ****

Ordinary Frederick
Driving in my car
Extrasolar liquid water
Exoplanet star

                    Rest!

Worry for my darling son
Keep him noble true
Maybe local motion
Maybe GMU

Tired. Exoplanets!
Carolina blue
My darling, darling son
El futuro calls for you

Rieko is quite wonderful
Beauty of Japan
Snow Falling on Cedars
I wanna be your man

California Coast
Tidal pools in Monterrey
San Francisco Zen
Another night, Another day

                  Yea, verily. Yea.

I was an English teacher
Tried to teach the tweens
The Giver, City of Ember
The Outsiders, Things Not Seen

Now I'm just a dad
Get my son from school
Dr. Cohen a scholar
Harold Bloom a fool.

3 beautiful sons
     Taipei 101
un pequito fun

Get my son from work
Lovely October day
Sail the cosmic sea
Sail and say xie xie

In Dublin meant to be
My youngest now at play
Sha na na li li
Hidey hidey hidey hey!

Breakfast at the diner
Gotta start my day
Ordinary Frederick
Driving is the Way

I'm tired. Exoplanets!
Lady of the Lake
Standin' by God's river
My soul begins to quake

Will I die at Night?
Go out into the dark?
Give my very best
To Sacramento Mark

Will I die alone?
Will I die at home?
One foot in Seattle
One foot in Rome

Will I die in pain?
Will I die afraid?
Kamakura Buddha
Silently I prayed:

              xie xie

One life only
Then disappear forever
The silence is eternal
Let the ages roll

Snowfall shunyata
Charlotte in Kyoto
Kamakura Buddha
No clear goal

                  So ...

Frederick, Maryland
             Driving
            my sons!

Lonely as I age
Absurd. Yes, Absurd.
Try to do my best
Looking for a word

Take my son to work
Shopping for a car
Extrasolar water
Exoplanet star

                 Ole!

No one important
Awake at night
      Thinking.

Listening to Paul Simon
Whom I've loved my whole life
3 beautiful sons
1 troubled wife

1 life only
Disappear forever
Sacramento Mark
Sacramento Heather

                     Together.

I wrote a few poems
Desperate in the Night
Susan Darlene Meek
Gatsby's green light

I'm tired, a little bored
Lonely on my own
Late night lostness
Little black cell phone


          Phone Rome.

Born too late for religion
Secular my days
Eating, drinking, sleeping
Wander through the Maze

Grateful for my sons
Gotta see them through
One at Virginia Tech
Maybe GMU for 2

                   New.

Dr. Thomas, my favorite teacher
Gentleman of the South
Sparkle in his eye
Smile in his mouth

Mozart in the morning
Later Karl Barth
Soren Kierkegaard
Music, beauty, art

               xie xie

The right wing is always wrong
Sor Juana's mystic flight
Sing a Springsteen song
Last lone American night

Ordinary dailiness
A night of fearless sleep
Despair, I confess
But promises to keep

                 beep beep

That single reader
I give my soul to you
And Susan Darlene Meek
Carolina blue

Took a little gamble
Summer 2022
Maybe exoplanets
Maybe Sophia U.

           true 'dat
          double true!

The divorce of power and value
                       JMU
All the King's Men, Hard Times, King Lear

Episcopalian church
Her father is a priest
I've seen California
And I've seen the mystic East

Gotta get some lunch
Maybe barbecue
Unexpected, she said
Me at Seattle U.

          Rothko green and blue.

It's just an opinion.

Opinions are like *******:

Everyone's got one.

No one important
56 and falling
           Sigh...

David Markson
New York City
         Selah.

Take my son shopping today
Looking for a car
Extrasolar liquid water
Exoplanet star

Keep him moving forward
Step by step by drive
Low level depression
But grateful to be alive

                        I've ...

Long ago, my basketball friend Kevin
           Bert be home Blyleven
                        Amos 3:7

ashes to the sea
please protect my 3
         xie xie ni

missing you tonight
        memories
            ghosts

Trump is a Demagogue
Fear and prejudice
The Americans are ignorant
******* times like this

Time to reread Moby ****
Sail with Ishmael
Sail on to Seattle
Sing at night at Kells

             Me, Todd Witherell

Washing dishes
        Music
   Endurance

Women are the mystery
That eludes my mind
European history
I hope you treat me kind

Tired. Exoplanets!
A gazillion stars above
Silent in the Night
Who do you love?

     Who do you love, child?

Japanese proverb found
In Touching Spirit Bear.

According to the Japanese proverb

Plurality and Ambiguity
         Chicago snow
                    Yo.

David Markson in New York City
Me in Santa Fe
Encounters with Chinese Hermits
Silent is the Way

I just pass the time
Grateful for good sleep
Fatherhood, neighborhood
Promises to keep

                   Als Ick Kan

Chinese food today
Grey sky blues as well
One foot in the ancient world
Call me Ishmael

Two ears in rock n roll
Summer of 69
What I Like About You
World of strange design

My son is growing older
Tomorrow shopping for a car
Ah! Those Asian rains
Exoplanet star

                       So far!

Anxiety attack, Jack
          Patience
              Slow

Thai reclining Buddha
         Bangkok rain
             Som tam

...........JMU..........
Jack Burden who
  Dr. Thomas too

Irish skies were misty grey
Reno sky was blue
Dancing in the Purple Rain
Reading at Seattle U.

Reading, reading, reading
Books in my mind
Pleading, pleading, pleading
I hope you treat me kind

                      Find.