Maybe.
Mostly.

Once I was a teacher
Tried to do my best
Now I'm just a dad
Qualyxian the Quest

My hands upon her hair
My mouth upon her breast
Seattle misty rain
Pacific Northwest

                     Yes

Shakespeare in Staunton
Exit 222
Dr. Cohen gives a lecture
Not far from JMU

I watch Julius Caesar
What would an American do?
Only the women are noble
Like Susan Meek not Sue

                      'tis true

David Tracy is dead
I did not know him well
University of Chicago
Call me Ishmael

Tragedy. Greek tragedy.
Also in Shakespeare
Suffering, Fate, death
The fool he does appear

             Aqui. Here.

The professors are out of touch
Try to muddle through
Hospitals at night
Rothko green and blue

Rock n' Roll show
Reno rendezvous
Roxanne, sweet Roxanne
Horton Hears a Who

                       Do you?

Disappointment and pain
    Struggling daily life
                  hope...

A little lunch
A little nap
A little drive
Tally **!

A little rain
A little pain
A little dream
Tokyo

            Yo!

Hot day today
I stay inside and sleep
Extrasolar water
Promises to keep

My son is in Berlin
We talk on the phone
Anxiety within
The future is unknown

Music on the radio
He gets to his hotel
Extrasolar water
Call me Ishmael.

I went a little crazy
Went a little mad
Susan Darlene Meek
Sweet Sir Galahad

Slowly growing older
Thankful for my dad
Tired. Exoplanets!
Tired. Lonely. Sad.

                  Ole!

Dreaming of Chicago
1992
Dreaming of Japan
See you at Sophia U.

Dreaming of Susan Meek
Susan Meek not Sue
Ah! But all in vain
I'm just Carolina blue

                   Are you?

The racial problems in the USA
      Patience. Understanding.
                    Music!

Susan. Wishes. Sigh.

A night of fearless sleep
What dreams may come
Once in Siem Reap
Once in 101

Dreaming of Chicago
1992
2020
Carolina blue

           ever ancient, ever new

Si, Mr. Markson.

geeky shy afraid
        bipolar
          tired

Just playing with words
I like the sounds, like the sounds
Little. Little way.
Not a man of much renown

Hey ** the wind and the rain
Inner Harbor, Baltimore
Tokyo bullet train
4044

                          Lenore!

All these poems - my desperation
Death comes baring down
Rode the Dublin bus
When Love Comes to Town

Family, my struggling family
Close, keep us close
Day by day by day
California Coast

                  Holy Ghosts

I was in Paris once
Saw the Eiffel Tower
The Daughter indeed will come
But no man knows the hour

A gazillion exoplanets
Astrobiology
Hermits in the mountains
Red Pine, xie xie ni

                         Oui.

Fatherhood more than religion
Will I die in pain?
To sleep perchance to dream
Dream in Purple Rain

Young sons sung
Exoplanets too
I encounter the Absurd
Camus at JMU

                     Y Tu?

Basketball with my son
He gets a migraine. Sick.
Slowly guacamole
Embers. Moby ****.

My son drove today
O Life, keep him well
Slowly guacamole
The General. Ishmael.

               Forward!

Basketball tonight
          He and I
                Tak

Panic attacks, Jack
          Courage
             Slow

56 for a few days
Aging. Aging. Aging.
How much more to go?
Sail the cosmic sea

Family in Vienna
Train to Berlin
Music in the night
In Dublin meant to be

                  We.

Crossing the Baltic
Young sons sung
    Exoplanets!

Bangkok in the rain
Motorcycle taxi for me
Temples at Angkor Wat
Please protect my 3

The Buddha sits in silence
I was a teacher too
Now I'm just a dad
Far from JMU

                  'tis true

In gratitude for Ry
Comfort in his voice
A few months in Ireland
Bold Jimmy Joyce

Somewhere North of Nashville
Inner Harbor, Baltimore
1987
4044

                      Si, Senyor.

Vienna in the snow
Siena in the sun
Tokyo to Kyoto
Taipei 101

Basketball in the park
Un pequito fun
Seattle misty twilight
And the Day is Done.

I told her I missed her
In that I spoke the truth
La Florida the Land of Flowers
Long lost youth

Lonely as I age
Slowly. Patience. Please.
Time tick tocks
Can't make it freeze

               long disease

low level depression
struggling through the days
episodic vertigo
this life is a Maze

thankful for my dad
thankful for my sons
fearful of the future
soon the Day is Done

        y a little fun

A man of contradictions
Moods, proclivities
Tired. Exoplanets!
Please, baby, please

Cookout tomorrow
Then the NBA
Desperately Seeking Susan
Lay, lady, lay

            my my hey hey

Flight from Jerusalem to Vienna
St. Stephansdom above
Me solo below:

Hot chocolate, bookshop, snow.

Yes, Dr. Freud: to love and to work.

I majored in philosophy
Perhaps a big mistake
Cold and snow, Chicago
Lady of the Lake

I like being a dad
I worry about my sons
Sweet Sir Galahad
Taipei 101

             un pequito fun

New York City
  Als Ick Kan
       Selah

California boy
Santa Rosa son
    Cam Cam!

Last Halloween in Richmond
We went visiting Mr. Poe
Too late for school's beginning
Too early for the snow

I saw no bust of Pallas
Or at least they didn't show it
Just a bust with bleak black roses
Of the orphaned, lonely Poe-t

I like him because he's honest
A tortured soul needs savin'
I too loved and lost a Lenore
Nevermore to know this Raven!

Don't wanna work tomorrow
But I need to eat
Without her, without her
My life is incomplete

Lonely as the rain
Sadness seeping through
Susan Darlene Meek
Susan Meek not Sue

                   Sophia U.

Un pequito Espanyol
La Florida the Land of Flowers
California Coast
Silent through the hours

Viva Mexico!
Viva Tel Aviv!
La Florida the Land of Flowers
Hutch, Mike, and Steve

                     1986

I like to play with words
Find the hidden rhyme
Extrasolar water
Cranberry juice with lime

Maybe aliens
Maybe I die alone
Maybe, maybe baby
Into the Great Unknown

             E. T. phone Rome.

Once I was a basketball player
Now the silent scream
In my solitude
I play for my team

Extrasolar water
Astrobiology
Jerusalem to Vienna
In Dublin meant to be

                   Si.

My so-called life
      wifestrife
            Ole!

I wonder what she thinks now
           No way to know
                 Yo espero

Religion is mental illness
     Slowly. Day by day.
               xie xie

Yearning for Escape
But nowhere to go
               So ...

I'm not very funny
But I like to laugh
America the Ignorant
Trump is a sociopath

Portland's Japanese garden
San Francisco Zen
Snow Falling on Cedars
3710

                    And then ...

Soup dumplings for dinner
Memories of Taipei
Tired. Exoplanets!
Dawn goes down to day

Gotta work tomorrow
Can't find words to pray
Something radiates
Lay, lady, lay

         Californ I A!

24 hours in Seoul
Flight back from Taipei
Shamans in the mountains
Silent is the Way

Do a little laundry
Down goes down to day
Dinner with my son
Hidey hidey hidey hey!

I yearn to escape America
              Silence
                 Sigh