The conservatives are oppressors
They fear any disorder
My love and I, moonlit sky
Somewhere Across the Border

My life is very boring
I eat a tuna sub
My dad has been singing
At his local club

I've been to museums
I've been on the Mall
Took the train from London
River Eden, Wetheral

Wedding in Tel Aviv
And one in Tokyo
The Buddha sits in silence
Kamakura snow

             Ay yay yay yo!

No one important
Lots of time alone
I wish I was a shaman
I threw a Rolling Stone

I've been to Canada
Two Blue Jays games
Stanley Park, Vancouver
She is my secret flame

The American right is wrong
They call the National Guard
Tents in the forest
Tents in the yard

Hope for Chicago
Leonard Cohen in Montreal
The unimaginable zero summer
Then the Charlotte Fall

                   Right y'all?

The Wall Street Journal
Is full of hate
Something in me
Radiates
Please destiny
Not fearful Fate
Stealing home
Safe at the plate

       Go Guardians!

The Republican party is ignorance
Mixed with violence and racism
Nixon destroyed Cambodia
George W. destroyed Iraq

Free, free, free Palestine
The time has come, it's now
Gaza is under
Genocidal attack

Jerusalem is brown
Tel Aviv is blue
New York City nights
Carolina blue

Basketball today
Thumbs up, Chicago
St. Catherine of Siena
The Moor not Iago

                Wait for it!

The Episcopal churches are quaint
Her father is a priest
I've been to Paris, France
I've seen the mystic East

3 prayers for Chicago
Lady of the Lake
Sitting down to dinner
Every cake you bake

Love is the 7th wave
And the finest thing around
The silence is eternal
We disappear without a sound

Northern California
Southeast Asia too
Jesuit high school teachers
Kabbalistic Jews

                    7072

The silence is eternal
And it calls my name
I am drawn to it repeatedly
As a moth is drawn to flame

I walk the empty diamond
I spend much time alone
Desperately seeking Susan
Little black cell phone

Fatherhood is joy
Young sons sung
Stockholm to Helsinki
Aliens among

The silence is eternal
Snowfall shunyata
Sleep perchance to dream
Merciful Allah

                   Patientia

Siena on my honeymoon
Walked around the town
Vienna from Jerusalem
Not a man of much renown

Read Simone Weil
The Iliad, the poem of force
Dr. Thomas told me
JMU of course

Sunlit Italy
Pasta, good red wine
Roman holiday
Hiding the divine

Ms. Jennifer Botta
Jackie Graziano
Providence, Rhode Island
My grandmother's piano

                    Grazie

Carolina Inn
Outside is the fire
Room 137
She's the object of my desire

Boring daily life
I drift, I drift toward death
Try to calm myself
Quiet slowly breath

European history
Cathedrals found in France
A little mango lhassi
Lord Shiva does his dance

Solitude, silencio
Empty Diamond nights
Susan Darlene Meek
Two green lights

                 Walking ...

We don't survive death
It's all over forever
Sacramento Mark
Sacramento Heather

I wish I was a shaman
Protection for my tribe
Mexican food today
Jarritos I imbibe

Life goes on until it doesn't
Eyes wide shut
Marjorie Taylor Greene
One psychonut

Almost no influence
Gonna sleep it off and wait
San Francisco dim sum
At the Dragon Gate

                      8088

Grateful for dropping peace
Breathe. Take it slow.
Drums in the distance
O we o we o

It's not gonna get solved
I can never know
Plant three mustard seeds
Seattle cedarsnow

Mexican food today
Lay in bed and lonely
Denver, Colorado
I write telephonely

Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men
Northbound 35
3710

           Muy bien.

I seek but do not find
Fall back to silent nights
In Bangkok Buddha mind
2 green lights

Free, free Palestine
Rabbi Nahman knew
Mr. Richard Parker
Pondicherry Zoo

Mr. David Markson
Alone in New York City
Took the London train
Stockholm is quite pretty

My son plays basketball
With his best friend Zach
Nixon destroyed Cambodia
George W. destroyed Iraq

                 Resistance!

I have the heavy despair
Weighs me down, weighs me down
I'm tired, lonely, sadness
Off like a prom gown

Talked to my sons today
They keep me going on
Despite absurdity
1 gentle fawn

                  please Dawn

long term view
walk the little way
water drops on rocks
basketball to play

Socratic dialogue
universities at night
silent contemplation
two green lights

All Walls Fall
Empires do too
hummus and pita bread
Pondicherry Zoo

you're tired, I know
I'm Carolina blue
rain in the trees
snow in my shoe

           Class of 72

Free, Free Palestine
The times change
Breaking through
Young divine
  
           It's time!

One eye on the protests
One eye on the rain
2 hands on the wheel
2 legs on the train

I wish I could hold her
I wish but wish in vain
Germany and France
Portugal and Spain

Saw my sons today
Stephen King in Maine
Stand by Me
Despite the gentle pain

                  Stirrings!

ordinary dailiness
life goes on until it doesn't
call my son today
a little basketball

I can't find her
sleep late and long
Stockholm, Sweden
River Eden, Wetheral

I like stained glass windows
wine in a clear glass
her beautiful ***
James more than Paul

1987
Summer
My house
The Fall

I miss her in the morning
Lonely cool before dawn
3 beautiful deer
One lovely fawn

Never right without the girl
Therefore, never right
Denver, Colorado
2 green lights

Basketball today
Solitary play
Lonely, quiet
Dawn goes down to day

                  The Way ...

A lot of stupid people
In these United States
I slowly go
Something radiates

I'm tired and I'm lonely
Worried by the Fates
Sit in San Francisco
By the Dragon gates

Not reading much
Kindness comes in crates
Worms, Roxanne
50 First Dates

           37 on license plates

Palestine stirs
Universities breaking free
Slowly guacamole
Slowly xie xie ni

I like Ari Shavit
My Promised Land
Wedding in Tel Aviv
Then a rockin' band

The times they are a-changin'
I keep changin' too
Tzimtzum on the ocean
Pondicherry Zoo

         Muslim Christian Jew

Silent desperation
Walking home alone
Vegetarian pizza
Little black cell phone

She lives in Denver
I'm in Baltimore
Guiding Buddhist logic
The play of neither/nor

Boring boring boredom
Don't read that much
1985
Mike, Steve, and Hutch

1987
She breaks up with me
Ashes to the ocean
3033

                 Si.

California sun
Lovely Ms. Kathryn Orr
Rain on the ocean
Inner Harbor, Baltimore

Tell Mark hello
Sorry for the misunderstanding
Take off from San Francisco
Asian monsoon landing

We die and disappear
There is no resurrection
I whisper in your ear
The object of my affection

California sun
San Francisco Zen
We die and disappear
Do you remember when?

                3710

Made the pilgrimage to Amherst
And to Oxford too
The tales of Nahman of Bratslav
My mystic Rabbi Jew

Tired. Exoplanets.
My middle son awake
Chicago in the winter
Lady of the Lake

So much time alone
My life tick tocks away
Silent desperation
Is the way I pray

              y xie xie

Dr. Frenkel was very caring
Without doubt the best
I wish I was more daring
Qualyxian the Quest

Northern Virginia is kinda boring
But also kinda stable
The old man is snoring
The young man is able

Sunlit Maryland day
A little basketball
No nay never nay
Dublin in the Fall

She eludes my grasp
Volleyball on the beach
I miss her as I clasp
Her body lotion peach

                  Each ...

Albert Camus at JMU
Life itself is Absurd
My honeymoon in Paris
Merci is the word

I went to New Orleans once
Preservation Hall
Took a train from London
River Eden, Wetheral

American politics is Abysmal
Chicago in the snow
A little mango lhassi
Let your garden grow

The poetry is play
Little Satellite Beach
You can call me crazy
Black man called me teach

                 Charlotte!

Literature more than religion
Gimme Moby ****
Yes, I'd like to touch her
Does she see me sick?

A little German food
A little morning rest
My children growing older
Qualyxian the Quest

Science fiction movies
Old friends connect
Eternal is the Silence
It does not resurrect

But maybe baby compassion
And a gentle smile
I hold her in my heart
For just a little while

                  La Florida!

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

Dylan in Lake Tahoe
Mark Knoppfler too
Such a lovely sight
Tangled up in Blue

Springsteen in Detroit
Black cop keeps traffic's order
Someday I meet my love
Somewhere Across the Border

Solitude is best for me
But friendship is far better
1987
Still cannot forget her

1 horrific marriage
3 beautiful sons
Sonnet 130
Taipei 101

Some trouble sleeping
Just a little work
Billy Crystal is funny
David Brooks is a ****

The poems give me pleasure
Drifting as I age
Will I be discovered?
Detroit. Turn the Page.

            Summer's coming ...

I've got unresolved anger issues
*******! to this world
No way for lasting happiness
Without the woman girl

Northern California
Southeast Asia too
Mr. Leonard Cohen
Buddhist Catholic Jew

Vegetarian burritos
Hummus, pita bread
Sharp, internal pain
Alas, the Nameless Dread

Good things for Judi
Sunshine in the South
The Buddha sits in silence
Lotus flower mouth

                    Help!

I have you in mind, attentive reader,
As I try to tell a life
Take the ball and score
Left handed off the glass

I have been to New York
Man of La Mancha
Central Park picnic
Barefoot in the grass

Theroux not Thoreau
Old Patagonia Express
Jorge Luis Borges
I no longer go to Mass

Un escritor
Indian food for lunch
Basketball at night
The beauty of her ***


               Patience...

California snow
Florida thunder rain
Inner Harbor, Baltimore
I ride the Downbound Train

Dublin was the post office
And the Book of Kells
I was in Poland once
Tolkien loved the elves

Taipei American School
Delicious won ton soup
I frequently breakdown
Let us now regroup

Paul Theroux's travel books
The Writer's Almanac
Nixon destroyed Cambodia
George W. destroyed Iraq

             That's a fact, Jack.

The struggle of daily life
Depression out of the blue
Resting on the couch
Nothing much to do

All the King's Men
There is a blackness to truth
Tucson, Arizona
Friendship of late youth

Traffic in Northern Virginia
Robinson middle school
Truly noble Cordelia
Harold Bloom a fool

Quiet Toledo, Ohio
Christmas every year
Lotus flower in the mud
Courage in the fear

             children dear

Brown: the Last Discovery
Sacramento days
Un escritor
Say hey Willie Mays

When I die it won't be solved
The puzzle of my life
Susan Darlene Meek
One email to my wife

Lightning storms over the Atlantic
Fairchild. Kevin.
A little basketball
Amos 3:7

Thai panang curry
Encounters with Chinese hermits
Somewhere over the Rainbow
Ms. Piggy and Kermit

Rieko and Takahiro
Taxi from 101
Tokyo to Kyoto
When the Day is Done

Silent desperation
Is the way I pray
Snow Falling on Cedars
Ishmael, xie xie

I like Korean food
Vegetarian burritos
City at Night! City at Night!
My mom buried in Toledo

Time is the Cross
All that wood and glass
Meditation hall
This it came to pass

                   Asia!

The evening sun is setting
I didn't find her today
I won't find her tomorrow
My sons: callooh! callay!

Vienna aglow in snow
Lake Tahoe too
Picasso's Guernica
Rothko green and blue

I eat an Impossible burger
Ever ancient, Ever new
Dylan in Orlando
Horton Hears a Who

Give her kindnesses
April leads to May
Te amo, Susan
What I wish to say

                    Play!

Tidal pools in Monterrey
My children still so young
I'm kinda California
Young sons sung

Cool grey city of love
San Francisco Zen
Vegetarian tacos
Udon noodles. Muy bien.

                I die when?

I am a taxi service
Which is ok by me
Meet my son's friends
Basketball to see

Vegetarian tacos
7273
Lay in bed and lonely
St. Chapelle - merci

Tired. Desperation.
Dave Mattingly
Tired. Contemplation.
Tacos. Xie xie ni.

Even daily life is a struggle
Depression. What a *****!
Tired all the time
Sad world of my own

My son and his friends
Un pequito hope
Sleep. Grateful sleep.
Privacy. Alone.

                 Moan...

I try to take it slow
I kinda meditate
Als Ick Kan
8088

Will I die pain?
Hospital or home?
Honeymoon in Paris
Honeymoon in Rome

I like those minarets
Hummus, pita bread
Everyone I love
Will one day end up dead

Why, Judi, Why?
Hum the hummingbird
Desafortunadamente
My favorite Spanish word

                     Ole!

Is it genocide in Gaza?
35000 dead
Protests at Columbia
Children to be fed

I'm Carolina blue
America gone red
I lay solo awake
She's not in my bed

I went to a wedding in Tel Aviv
One in Tokyo too
I miss the traveling
Pondicherry Zoo

Tired. Exoplanets.
Horton Hears a Who
Als Ick Kan
The best that I can do

            For me. For you.

I drive my son and his friends
To the mall
I am a taxi service
Which is ok by me

Hold on to 15!
Changes come and go
What a sight around midnight
All that Tahoe snow

I'm kinda California
A little Baltimore
The way we live now
2024

They walk around the mall
Keep them safe protected
El futuro, por favor
2073

                     She ....

Hits me like 6 bricks
Courage. Fortitude.
Even daily life
A struggle. Slowly go.

            Yo espero.

Just the little poems
Rhyme, memory
Wish I was a shaman
Wish I could set free

Vegetarian tacos
Lettuce, refried beans
Once I was a teacher
Poems for the tweens

Mr. David Markson
France, Mexico
Does she think about me?
Probably never know

Cool grey city of love
San Francisco Zen
Susan Darlene Meek
Ah! What might have been

                     3710

Contemporary America is chaos
I sleep late. Meditate.
Will I travel again?
Maybe ride a train

           brainpain

So I was an English teacher
Taught the tweens
My favorite middle school book:
Things Not Seen

I like Carl Hiaasen
My favorite of his is Flush
The Green Light!
Her blush

Katniss Everdeen
I volunteer! I volunteer!
I drive
You steer

Still love the Hobbit
The Eagle and the Child
Young minds
Curiosity running wild

           Las bibliotechas!

I was in France for one week
Eifel Tower
Sacre Couer
Chartres

Mark Rothko
Houston Chapel
David Markson
Art

The French waitress was very nice
Friendly
I like Dash Incredible
Not Napoleon Blown Apart

Sacramento, California
Mormon Mike Watson
Me and Mark Hasik
Mike farts.

So if I were a shaman
I would be a wounded healer
The sickness that I feel
Would lead to help for my tribe

But I live in 2024
I take the medicine
Don't see much hope
Sleep. Sleep. Alive.

I need Susan Meek
Not gonna happen
The United States is racist
Northbound 35

Not much in this town
Might drive to Baltimore
Edgar Allen Poet
Sweet tea I imbibe

                   Inner Harbor ...