I'd like to write a poem
That would bring to flight a place
Yes, her **** voice
The beauty of her face

Ireland was music
Rode the Dublin bus
Misty grey. Misty grey.
Just the two of us

My son is working tonight
He keeps making money
Ben Shapiro is a racist
Will Ferrell is very funny

Rick Steves in Italy
Me in Vienna's snow
Will I die alone?
No way yet to know

                  So ...

my daily desperation
       55 and falling
                   O!

Love is patient and kind
But human beings are not
1 prayer for Ry
2 hopes for Scott

Star Trek. Exoplanets.
Dream of other worlds
The Space Coast in Florida
You should see the girls!

Wandering Daoist Hermits
Silent is the Way
Drifting toward death
My sons: callooh! callay!

Jerusalem was brown
Tel Aviv was blue
Vienna was sparling snow
You and I not-two

                  Sophia U.

Fond of little Reno
Fond of Sage Ridge School
Dr. Cohen is a scholar
Harold Bloom was a fool

Big blue Reno sky
Sledding in the snow
My boys still very young
On and on we go

                        Yo!

I find life often overwhelming
Chaos in the day. Chaos in the night.
Unable to relax
Two green lights

I'm fond of little Reno
Sage Ridge School
Cordelia is truly noble
King Lear is a fool

Maybe exoplanets
Extrasolar water
Maybe aliens
Do aliens have daughters?

It's just the dailiness
Slowly, step by song
Maybe decades more
Maybe late along

Donald Trump is a demagogue
The Americans are his chumps
Come, sail away
Seek a different world

I majored in philosophy
Probably a mistake
Mr. David Markson
Lady of the Lake

There's no clear Answer
Just the living days
Thank you for my sons

               Endurance!

Just can't relax
Agitation. Agitation.
Does no good
Quiet meditation

Life as torment
Very little peace
Tragedy and Comedy
Shakespeare and Ancient Greece

Please protection for my sons
A little happiness
European cities
A pretty prom dress

Un Escritor
Vegetarian burritos
Momentary calm
My mother's grave in Toledo

I sense the sadness in his voice
                  endurance
                        hope!

One eye on the ancient world
Latin. Hebrew. Greek.
One eye on Rick Steves
One heart for Susan Meek

I liked living in Ireland
I like the Dublin mist
America falls for Trump
One man he resist!

I'm no one important
Lonely nights alone
Give my best to Chicago
Culianu, Ioan.

            E.T. phone home!

Down and delirious in Mexico City
Spring break in L.A.
Phone call to my son
Basketball to play

Somewhere Across the Border
Sleep my love and I
3 dear deer
I Thai Wai

                       Sigh ...

Mr. David Markson
Viva Mexico
One man come he to justify
One man to Overthrow!

In my solitude
Silent is the way
Holy Toledo! Ohio
Dawn goes down to day

Please happiness for my son
Magic still to play
Please give up your guns
Por favor. Xie xie.

sick and suffering, they said
sick and suffering is true
Embers, City of Ember
Pondicherry Zoo

The gout is very painful
I'm Carolina blue
Rothko red and orange
Me at Seattle U.

                 reading

.......,.Barcelona........
             Gaudi
La Sagrada Familia

55 and falling
    my sons
          O!

Red Pine's Road to Heaven
     Chungnan Mountains
       secrets of the moon

Detroit's Fox Theater
          Springsteen
             Tom Joad

Gonna see my son today
Thank you. Thank you, life.
Politics Portends
Relentlessly the strife

I love being a dad
Worry for my boys
Time tick tocks
Make a joyful noise

Vienna in the snow
Ludwig Wittgenstein
She is one of a kind
She just mine all mine

Boring daily life
Quiet desperation
Post cards in the mail
Silent meditation

I've been in therapy
It helped a little bit
The therapist listened well
But then I had to go

I am a troubled soul
Never quite at ease
Kamakura Buddha
Kamakura snow

Sleep well, my darling sons
Dream of destiny
Ordinary days
Wander to and fro

Candle in the wind
Rain upon the window
Mist in the mountains
One light does glow

             Yoko yo yo!

I am afraid of dying
Please courage at the end
I hope I rest in peace
Silence be my friend

Mr. David Markson
Que selah selah
Once I was a teacher
Now I just pretend

America is in trouble
Demagogue in the Night
Please not Trump again
Gatsby's sweet green light

Prayer for the immigrants
Tired, on the run
O ye Americans:
Please give up your guns

       Have un pequito fun.

Suffering is caused by desire
So are children, so is life
Take it easy, take it slow
My half Thai wife

I like universities
But just to walk around
Everybody knows
I am the newsboy of this town

Music is the mystery
You shook me all night long
In my solitude
Man of La Mancha songs

The troubled Catholic Church
Guadalupe green
City of Ember, Flush
Holes, Things Not Seen

               All That Jazz
                Ben Vereen

Up in the Night
   quiet desperation
              Flight!

Troubled by sexuality
Attracted by religion
Hagia Sophia
Seattle in the snow

No life after death
55 and falling
Young sons sung
One man to Overthrow!

Tired. Exoplanets.
True Grit, Lost in Translation
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's Farm
E I E I O

Bipolar
Diabetes
Gout

                         So ...

Troubled Divinity student
Lonely in Chicago
The Bulls on tv
Lovely winter snow

Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Vegetarian images
Seattle, early 90s
Then I got to go

3 days in Vienna
Flight from Jerusalem
St. Stephansdom above
Me solo below

55 and falling
Young sons sung
Markson. David Markson.
Solamente yo.

the mystery of race
the beauty of her face
     aliens in space?

Let my son sleep in peace
Be gone, Anxiety!
Let him dreamtime of the Deep
Beauty Baltic Sea

                          Si.

Lived in Dublin for a couple months
Rode the bus through town
Young couple speaking French
Sounds so good to me

Saw the Book of Kells
Had a panic attack
Talked with the sales clerk
Man said meant to be

Went to the Cliffs of Moher
Wind upon my face
My son lost his jacket
The beauty of the sea!

                     The sea!

Asia in my life
Rice. The Buddha too.
Thai iced tea
Merton at JMU

Hunan vegetable
Korean grocery store
Bangkok in the rain
4044

San Francisco Zen
Two years in Taipei
Lost in Translation
Still I say xie xie

Encounters with Chinese Hermits
Red Pine's Road to Heaven
A little won ton soup
3837

I wish I was a shaman
Protection for my tribe
Talk with the animals
But I just struggle to survive

Jesuit Volunteer Corps
1993
Seattle in the snow
In Dublin meant to be

Bipolar disorder
Disability
Monthly injection
Proceeding hopefully

Just the little poems
I am a Markson Man
Als Ick Kan
Do the best I can.

She's a schizophrenic
And we are married still
Keep her in the Calm
Slowly, day by day

Distant Barcelona
Cathedral by Gaudi
La Sagrada Familia
Maybe she can see

          Enduring We

Republicans despise victims
Which is why they make so many
I just stay inside and read
Poetry in my mind

Reno
Tahoe
Denver
I hope you treat me kind

                 55 and falling
           Something left to find?

It's true I like the movies
Popcorn by my feet
Mr. Michael Clayton
And everyone I meet

I'm not worried about political correctness
One man to Overthrow!
Reno in the summer
Seattle in the snow

The historical Jesus didn't die for your sins
Or mine
He just got crucified

The historical George. W. didn't **** to protect
Your freedom
He killed because he lied.

I like Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's grandeur, terrible sonnets
Wonder if he was bipolar too?
Jesuits in my life

Give my best to Chicago
All that winter wind
Snow on the lake
South Side in strife

           worry for my wife

I write the little poems
Memory, place, rhyme
I don't chant the sutras
I just pass the time

Bangkok motorcycle taxis
Gliding in the rain
Tokyo to Kyoto
On the bullet train

55 and falling
American despair
Politics Portends
Highwater Everywhere

Sick. Lying in bed.
Sleep. Recovery.
Miss my beloved sons
Move from I to we

Mostly bad philosophy
Meister Eckhart calls
Took the train from London
River Eden, Wetheral

A little watermelon
Cranberry juice with lime
Yo soy un isolato
Lonely life in rhyme

                  I'm ....

Buried so deep
       Destiny
         Dylan

There is always some madness in love
But there is also always some reason in madness
La Florida the Land of Flowers
A little Irish sadness

I just pass the time
Talk to my oldest two
Miss my youngest one
Maybe JMU

Please keep him safe, O Life!
Please. Destiny.
Daily learning too
3333

                   Silent plea.

I say I Miss You out loud
When I am all alone
She wouldn't believe me anyway
I threw a Rolling Stone

Irish post office
Stockholm scifi books
European history
I wash dishes for the cooks

The Roman Catholic Church
Badly ****** on ***
Politics Portends
What will happen next?

Once an English teacher
Now a lonesome dad
Lady of the Lake
Sweet Sir Galahad

                 forward!

Bipolar depression
Anxiety attacks
Nixon destroyed Cambodia
George W. destroyed Iraq

Grateful for good sleep
Painful memories
All alone, proclivities prone
Life as a disease

But also as a gift
Markson: Als Ick Kan
We in Copenhagen
Me in Gamla Stan

Politics Portends
How bad will it get?
Reno Rendezvous
Highway of Regret

               And yet ...

All the King's Men
Me at JMU
19 years old
Susan Meek not Sue

Embers, City of Ember
American Cosmic too
Quiet libraries
What I'd like to do

Noisy rock concerts
Silent monasteries
Death comes for the Archbishop
And for me too, Mother Mary

Speeding Spanish trains
Mediterranean Sea
Cambrian Explosion
In Dublin meant to be

                       We.

I'm an amateur
Which means one who loves
Poe, Frost, Tennyson
Emily, Hopkins, Eliot

Be honest about myself
Not much, not much at all
Cambrian Explosion
River Eden, Wetheral

Can't really stop the writing
Tried to, but I can't
Henry David Thoreau?
You'll have to ask my aunt

Mr. David Markson
Solitude. New York City.
Susan Darlene Meek:
Gentle, caring, pretty

                  Denver!

Grey day blues today
Rest. Solitary.
Call my middle son
Keep him in my heart

White people with tattoos
Such is little Reno
To respond to suffering
By creating relating Art

Dawn goes down to day
7 Shakespeare plays
Noble Cordelia!
We all must play a part

Better to be lucky than good
Boston in the winter
Icy Charles River
My boy's wicked smaht!

Grey day today
I sleep inside
I remember Stockholm, Sweden
Remember Malahide

I like the Star Trek movies
Like Arrival too
Mission to Europa
Pondicherry Zoo

I read them City of Ember
Read them Things Not Seen
Chicago in the winter
Rothko blue and green

I post and post True Grit
Ms. Mattie Ross
Everlasting Arms
After all is lost

                  Music!

He calls poetry a school for feeling
Maybe this is so
What I feel for her
How I can't let go

Beautiful woman sitting near me
But I don't tell her. No.
I just steal a glance
Beautiful woman lo!

Cristobal Colon -izer
Time to let him fade away
Oct. 14
Indigenous People's Day

John Wayne's teeth
Thomas Builds-the-Fire
Father Greeley freely
George W. Liar

I am afraid of dying
Please courage at the end
Enter the Eternal Silence
Silence be my friend

                    Pretend.

Up sick this night
Sore throat. I can't sleep.
One eye on one son
Promises to keep

I'm doomed and I know it
Memories of Seam Riep
Emotions overflow it
Canyons snowy steep

I still love basketball
Thank you to my dad
Gandalf the White
Sweet Sir Galahad

The sore throat is painful
Took the medicine
Knock knock knock
Please let me in

          Thomas the Twin

I'm drawn to monkish solitude
Yo soy un isolato
Loneliness today
Loneliness tomorrow

My sons keep me connected
I say this gratefully
If I had one wish, O Life!
Please protect my 3

Once I was a traveller
Vienna, Paris, Rome
The temples at Angkor Wat
Very far from home

Now I stay inside
Sleep perchance to dream
Write a few poems
Post one for my team

                   Go Scorps!

I haven't read Plato in a very long time
Never been to Greece
Silently the breath
One day the breath will cease

Gratitude for fatherhood
Chaos comes a-calling
Music in the magic show
River Eden, Wetheraling

Pythagoras of Samos
Me of Christmas Eve
Satellite Beach, Florida
Hutch, Mike and Steve

In My Letter to You
Painful memories
Silent in the night
Wind in willow trees

          Please, baby, please!

Plato. Plato.
Dialogues by day
Lonely mountain mist
Gracias xie xie

Our politics is hideous
Let the Music Play!
O those 80s ladies!
Silent is the Way

        No nay never nay.

I'm not a bourgeoise industrialist
I am a Markson Man
Not much. Not much.
Do the best I can

Rainy Night in Georgia
Rain in Bangkok too
Bladerunner 2049
Monsieur Albert Camus

In my solitude
Lonely as the rain
Rick Steves in Europe
Barcelona, Spain

Women out of reach
Life itself is pain
La Florida the Land of Flowers
Rode the Downbound Train

                  Tray aya ayain!

I'm fond of little Reno
Sledding in the snow
My boys still so young
Hidey hidey hidey **!

Moroccan mint tea
San Francisco Zen
Like you I have to die
But I don't know when

Lost in Translation
Tokyo poetry
Me at the Book of Kells
Man said meant to be

Missing Cam tonight
Keep him safe protected
I hope that Donald Trump
Is forever unelected