55 and falling
Teach my son to drive
Sick and suffering
But grateful to be alive

Keep him moving forward
We awake at dawn
Mr. Michael Clayton
Scifi Gamla Stan

Rick Steves in Italy
One foot in Rome
2 eyes at Angkor Wat
Very far from home

Might reread Moby ****
Also All the King's Men
City of Ember remembers
San Francisco Zen

                      3710

Frederick, Maryland
Get my son to class
Meditation hall
Lovely wood and glass

I find *** tormenting
O! for the release
3 tragedies and a satyr play
Mind of Ancient Greece

German nature mystic
John Denver in the night
Satellite Beach, Florida
Gatsby's green light

Will I die alone?
Corpse to the Fire
2nd Noble Truth
Suffering is caused by desire

                      Higher.

Driving again today
He gets behind the wheel
We visit Valley Mall
Beg, borrow, steal

Movies have been companions
I post Roxanne
Susan Darlene Meek
I wish I was your man

I can't sleep, can't sleep
Gotta get my son to school
I like Arrival
A weapon or a tool?

Will I die alone?
In a hospital or my home?
Please protect my sons
Phone call to Rome

               Exoplanets!

Reno in the snow
     Big blue sky
            West

This long disease, my life
               Patience
                   hope!

Rick Steves in Austria
Mozart Christmas Eve
Satellite Beach, Florida
Hutch, Mike, and Steve

Aging is solitary
I drift, I drift toward death
No need for alcohol
No need for crystal ****

Music in Irish bars
Paris, Mother Mary
Extrasolar water
Wood and glass library

Awake in the night
Peace for my sleeping son
Taxi home alone
From Taipei 101

                     Moonlight!

Up again late at night
Having trouble sleeping
Mind on native things
Where's the Holy Ghost?

Frederick, Maryland
Mostly ordinary
He drove again today
I wait. I write. I post.

Dublin bus through town
Vienna in the snow
Vegetarian tacos
Peanut butter toast

I write because I ...
Traveled around a bit
Susan Darlene Meek
She I love the most

                 Denver!

Up late at night
My son sleeps in peace
A few thousand years
From portentous Ancient Greece

We practiced driving today
Keep him going strong
George Mason University
Mr. Harry Wong

I'm tired and I'm lonely
Exoplanet star
A little basketball
Maybe an Irish bar

I sang Purple Rain
And Summer of 69
Silent in the Night
Silences Divine

                   San Francisco!

Ordinary daily life
Driving with my son
A couple months in Dublin
Un pequito fun

Black bean tacos
Pepperoni pizza for two
El futuro thankfully
Q at JMU

                  New!

JMU came through for Q.
               Thank you.

Daily Life
  Patience
Endurance

Daily life
   Suffering
         For him

Got him to the dentist
Got him late to school
Dr. Cohen is a scholar
Harold Bloom was a fool

Grateful for small victories
Gotta clean my car
Boring daily life
Exoplanet star

                      So far!

Nirvana and Samsara are one
                 Just driving
                    Patience

Nirvana and Samsara are one
               Just sitting
                Patientia

I keep on writing lonely
Keep on writing blue
She's my one and only
Susan Meek not Sue

Tired. Exoplanets!
Souped up 72
European history
Ever ancient, Ever new

See my son tomorrow
See my darling one
A little basketball
Un pequito fun

He was born abroad
Near Taipei 101
Keep him on the way
Only just begun ...

Words, words, words
Silences at night
Daily dose despair
Two green lights

Gratitude for fatherhood
Keep them in my sights
Slowly guacamole
My Mr. Spock kite

                Well, alright!

All she is is anger
Anger mixed with rage
Another episode
I try to turn the page

All I am is lonely
Carolina blue
3 prayers for my son
1 for Seattle U.

               'tis true

Just daily life
Lonely. Ordinary.
Tired. Exoplanets.
Motion, Mother Mary

Two hard shell tacos
One Coca Cola
Post a little on Facebook
Movies, rock n rolla

I drift, I drift along
See my son tomorrow
Sing a Springsteen song

                   Youngstown!

It's not gonna be resolved
It's just gonna end
The silence is eternal
Silence be my friend

                   Amen.

He calls me and my heart leaps
Basketball tomorrow
Fatherhood is happiness
In this world of pain and sorrow

Quiet night alone
Memories of UNC
Vienna in the snow
Dublin meant to be

                       We.

Me on the UNC campus
Playing basketball
Lonely late at night
Solitary, y'all

In my solitude
Lonely as the rain
Walk home alone
Life itself is pain

      can't explain

Sitting in San Francisco
     Fog on the Bridge
                 Tea

phone call with my dad
ordinary day
solitary nights
silent is the Way

soon to call my sons
Let the Music Play!
Taipei 101
Basketball - xie xie

Tired, on my own
Memories of Vienna
Medieval Italy
St. Catherine of Siena

I have known the Absurd
Psych wards, injections
Nights all alone
Please for my boys protection

I like the ocean at night
I'm quite solitary
Shakyamuni Buddha
Green clad Mother Mary

                 Irish fairies

The garden of a thousand sighs
                      Slowly
                  exoplanets!

Black smoke Reno sky
A little lamplight rain
I'm tired, bored, lonely
Santiago, Spain

Rick Steve's in Italy
My honeymoon in Siena
Took a flight from Jerusalem
Landed in Vienna

Vienna all in snow
Music in the night
Please for my sons
Un pequito light

                  Alright!

In Dublin a little music
In Reno a little snow
See my son today
On and on we go

I drift, I drift toward death
Living leaves me low
Susan Darlene Meek
And I love her so ...

frightening dreams
chased/pulled to consciousness

               can't find my class

No one important
Alone in the night
           Write.

In gratitude for my dad today
                 Thank you
                     Xie Xie

3 tragedies and a satyr play.

Man's helplessness in a meaningless universe.

- Samuel Beckett

Is my country overrun
By the Ignorant?
Indeed, it is.

Is my marriage a horror story?
Indeed, it is.

Do I have despair?
Indeed, I do.

But fatherhood too!

Every insight is terrifying
Depression is a *****
Reno sun and snow
One man he resist!

Just to do my best
All Walls Fall
Time tick tocks
River Eden, Wetheral

             She doesn't call.

Just ordinary daily life
I walk into the store
Sick and suffering
Inner Harbor, Baltimore

1992
4044
Carolina blue
Tales of forgotten lore
.
          Sir Thomas More.

No one important
Drifting through the days
Gotta take a ****
The life a kind of Maze

No one important
Worry for my sons
Small victories
And the Day is Done

              sleep

Nirvana and Samsara are one
Quiet dailiness
Moroccan mint tea
Try to do my best

Errands in the morning
Afternoon rest
Suffering. Yearning.
Qualyxian Quest

                      Yes.

Fatherhood is gratitude
And worry all the time
Keep them, keep them close
Every mountain climb

                    Patience.

Black smoke Reno sky
A little Julius Caesar
A little Life of Pi

Motorcycle taxis
I Thai wai

Something good to do
Before my time to die

          Aye! Aye! Aye!

I wonder what she thinks
Bipolar 101
Bored, mostly bored
Please give up your guns

Her feminine Mystique
Attracts me like the sun
I'm a board game geek
At Taipei 101

            Un pequito fun

keep him a day of calm
good food, fearless sleep
sanctuary cities
dreaming of the Deep

keep him occupied
basketball, movies too
a little Irish green
y Carolina blue

                'tis true

Said Tom Wolfe.

Try to keep him safe
Try to keep him moving
A gazillion exoplanets
Postcards on the run

Basketball today
The tournament is looming
Buffalo Wild Wings
Please give up your guns

               un pequito fun

Just an amateur
Poems in the night
Thank you, dear reader
Sor Juana's mystic flight

Worry for my family
We need a little light
Slowly. With patience.
Try to get it right

             Day by Day