The Americans are Donald Trump
And he is surely them

They (barely) voted him out this time
But his kind will be back again

393 million guns
Have you seen her Zen?

I thank life for basketball
Canada, muy bien!

               I pretend.

It's just my inner drama
Comes out as thousands of poems

Yes, a sensitive
Can you see me when I show 'em?..

I like volleyball
And delicious chana masala

Rumi was a master
Poetry of Allah

I'll probably be forgotten
But I remember Dr. Thomas

In the years that still remain
Help me keep my promise

                     Amen.

awake again all night
I'd like to be medieval

but I'm in 2012
in America turned evil

oh! those Kyoto temples
ah! those French cathedrals

ye gods! the Trumpfuck mobs
is the country beyond retrieval?

Not good at friendship
Not good with women
Not good with organized
Not good with swimmin'

In my solitude
Haunted by the past
All things pass away
Nothing. Nothing lasts.

Now I'm 52
Ever ancient, Ever new
Muslim, Christian, Jew
What then left to do?

Ignorant religion
***** universities
A nation of cowards

         Sliding ...

I don't like women intellectuals
The male ones aren't much better
2023
Still I can't forget her

Books, yes
Movies
Restaurants
Sleep

         Promises to keep

2023
My year to wait and wait
Pregnant silences
Destiny, not Fate

I read the Guardian
Candidates debate
Exoplanets spin
A little help for Cate

Exoplanets spin
Something radiates
I walk the Empty Diamond
I watch the license plates

I watch and wait and wonder
Formulate my plans
Patientia
Solitary Man

          Will they understand?

Do I have a Destiny?
Am I but dust and shadow?
Is Judi on my team?
Did I turn on Susan's lights?

How can I get her help?
Would she take it if I got it?
Does Wendy see now?
How does she feel about me?

Am I supposed to do anything?
Why the predatory terror?
We meet again or no?
One of These Nights?

Will I get to Seattle?
Ever leave the country again?
Was the man in Dublin correct?
These coincidences be ...?

                     2023?

She would have to come here
And that's not gonna happen
So, my dear,
What should I do?

2023
I wait. I wait.
Children grow
Carolina blue

Rainin' Hard in Frisco
Susan, not Sue
Every Rose Has It's Thorn
Pi has the Pondicherry Zoo

           I ain't got you

Ambivalent about the professors
Some wonderful! Some arrogant ******.
Could I be a classic?
Chinese temple sticks

Archbishop Oscar Romero
Murdered during Mass
My blue soccer shirt
El Salvador drives past

Hablas Espanyol
Pero solamente un pequito
Heard Cornel West lecture
At the University of Toledo

Tired after work
Gonna take a bath
Donald J. Trump
American sociopath

             2024

My job was words
I was a teacher
Read those paperback books

Babette comes from Paris
Uppsala
She stirs and cooks

I too in Uppsala
Charming
Swedenborg's tomb

Election 2024
Trumpfucks and Trumpwhores
American Doom?

politics is what divides us
and we stand divided
Frank Sinatra this morning
music coincided

Trump is American Bad News
I'm lonely as the rain
Dixie Chicks, Netflix
Man of La Mancha, Spain

Harper's Ferry today
Say hi to John Brown
The Zealot and the Emancipator
Downbound Train, Scarlet Town

                    2024?

Serious as a heart attack
              patience
             resistance

it's 2 o'clock in the morning
but i had no idea

out shootin' hoops
can't see far from heah

Celtic Cross at midnight
one dear deah

in 5th grade lovely Laura
sat next to lovely Leah

           See ya!

I'd like to live in Sweden again
Or maybe Irish green

My favorite middle school book
Still is Things Not Seen

Don't want the red or white
Do like twilight blue

2037
For my sons be true

I don't have to be perfect
Just have to do my best
Probably I am nothing
To her I true confessed

I keep on mailing fighting
Silence for the rest
Postcard poetry
Future for the fest?

All men are created equal
But all women are definitely not
Buddhamind in Bangkok
Tremendum at Angkor Wat

Me at JMU
UVA was Scott
Ry is Virginia Tech
I post and play and plot

Just a few rooms
I do not own a yacht
Als Ick Kan
Give the best I got

      2037. What?

Everybody's bipolar now
Psychiatrists makin' big bucks
I eat miso soup
Drink Jarittos at taco trucks

Lucky to have had some good teachers
Middle school myself
Stepping stones, Zeroes at the Bones
Legolas the Elf

It's ok to die; please help me, Ry
Not to be afraid
Ashes greenblue ocean
101 Taipaid

                     Wayed

I've abandoned all hope
I'll never get to heaven

But, Wendy Darling,
Will I get to 2037?

Solamente un pequito
But enough for taco trucks

American billionaires
Oh those megabucks

Mcmansions and the Pentagon
Bombs on foreign peoples

Megachurches, mastadons
Confusion from the steeples

But basketball still is played
As when I was young

Aliens. Are you afraid?
Will their song be sung?

No one important
Which is just as well
2:05
I'm up awake

Scarred by Chicago
Loneliness
Deep dish pizza
Lady of the Lake

Asian trains
Miso soup
Marital strife
Big mistake

Hospitals
Medicines
Therapy
Birthday Cake

         54

It's palindrome time again
Stanley Yelnats, if only if only
I write these little poems
I write them telephonely

Madam I'm Adam
Arthur Edens too
Toledo, San Diego
Pondicherry Zoo

Was it a cat or a car I saw?
Horton hears a Who
54, Baltimore
SJW

                 Be true.

It's palindrome time again
Stanley Yelnats, if only if only
I write these little poems
I write them telephonely

Madam I'm Adam
Arthur Edens too
Toledo, San Diego
Pondicherry Zoo

Was it a cat or a car I saw?
Horton hears a Who
54, Baltimore
SJW

                 Be true.

Little Raven in Denver
             Arapahoe
                    72

They give something to live for
Despite despite despair
Video games, friends, rare
Pulls, **** pic, prayer

            El Futuro!

Death is Annihilation
But there are hints and guesses
Adios amigos
Snowfall shunyata

1987
She quietly undresses
2072
Madonna Kabbalah

Chicago in the Winter
Stockholm in the Spring
Buddhamind in Bangkok
I wait. Yes I wait.

La Florida the Land of Flowers
Denver, Colorado
Silent Shinkansen
Destiny. Not Fate.

       Dragon Gate...

The wish poetry could do something
But alas! words words words
Try to resist myself
Try to resist the Absurd

Try to enjoy my life
Loneliness unheard
Grateful for my sons
1st 2nd 3rd

The sunshine does feel good
But I'm often ill at ease
Life is a mystery
And, alas, a real disease

Some good thing
Before my time is through
Eyes Wide Shut
But I open them for you

               2072

O you people of the future
I give my thoughts to you

Do better than we did
Carolina blue

I hope that my descendants
Come to visit too

Extraterrestrial water
Tell me, Tell me:  Who?

One more before I sleep
2:07 in the night

Life is mostly boring
But life feels like a fight

My children on the phone
Their voices do delight

She said Twilight Zone
Could she perchance be right?

Illusions come and go
As do true insights

To sleep perchance to dream
Kierkegaard, not Sein und Zeit.

For 20 years I was a teacher
Read a lot of middle school books

I like to read out loud
Like to see attentive looks

Teaching was a good job
But now I'm unemployed

At times I like the silence
At times I'm paranoid

Don't think I'll teach again
Just read and wander lonely

Silently Sophia
She's my one and only.

I am having a lot of memories
Of my grandparents' house
The living room is vivid
Piano on the wall
Drawings of 5 sons

Where does the past go?
Still in my mind
Not even past
To find her:
Thy will be done.

1 is the loneliest number
Pink Panther Diamond
Holly Holy guacamole
In Your Eyes
Midnight Sun

So often so serious
Seeking
Ms. Meeking
Fighting
Pero un pequito fun

              Volleyball!

2 days in a row
my apartment solo

               0

21000 poems
Not one step closer
Had to get it outta me
Life is rain on pain on train

If she were here
I probably would not write
But she loves another
St. Teresa in Avila, Spain

My dad so good to me
On his way to Toledo
I eat vegetarian burritos
Jane! Jane! Jane!

Quiet conversations
Hours in hot showers
She wears green lingerie
The Trumpfucks are insane

               No risk, No gain

So I've got a thing with 37
See it on license plates
I like Adam ******* at times
50 first dates

Not that great at math
Souped up 72
Icy Charles River
Taipei do we do

Little dragon temple
I watch. Yes, I watch.
Not much of a drinker
I bourbon. 1 beer. 1 Scotch.

I think of you, dear reader
Alone in Istanbul
Poem in a dream
Destiny:  The Pull.

        patientia

Religion promises Another World
It's not real
But then neither are we

Women priests
Gay marriage
2123

Exomoons
Europa Report
Astrobiology

SJW
JFK
CDC

            Oui.

Tried to exorcise some demons
Probably only temporary
Magic the Gathering
Fatherhood xie xie

Vienna in the snow
Stockholm in the sun
Taipei in the rain
Silent is the Way

But sometimes I wanna talk
Call at 2 a.m.
Can't sleep at all
But don't know what to say

          my my, nay nay

Lost and lonesome ennui
Hey nonny nonny

At least i have the phone
To prove i'm not alone

Women i knew too few
Really only two

Solitude is 1
3 sons sung.

Begun.

Powell's City of Books
Far better than Barnes and Noble

The dread coronavirus
Catastrophe gone global

David Markson all alone
In lonely New York City

When she was sweet 16
My God she was so pretty!

I need to get a job
But anxiety attacks

Basketball at night
One way I can relax

Arrival got me thinking
China is a mystery

In 2137
Who will know my history?

Time the Preserver
Time the Destroyer

Both public and private
Schools my employer

Worked as a barback
Making the drinks

Worked as a tutor
Helping kids think

Worked at Moby ****
Making the bread

For decades and decades
She's in my head

I'm now alone
No wife in my bed

My sins are as scarlet
Will my poems be read?

Will the Silence be generous
After I'm dead?

Prayers for the future
And all left unsaid.

                     2137!

I see the sacred terror
Heathens take it slow

Facebook is not error
Sledding Reno snow

Soon the little stamps
Sanchez (Emilio)

Sleep, the night is light
Planetario

             still don't know

Americans are nihilists
They believe in nothing at all

Train from Paddington Station
North to Wetheral

I'm up again alone
The Pope said All Walls Fall

Helsinki for one afternoon
Now it's Carolina, ya'll

               Rest.

dreams of escape
      hopeless

      hopeless

2:22, palindromic
Staley Yelnats in my mind

I wish that I was not death phobic
I hope you treat me knid

Enceladus might have life
We may not be alone

My children sleep; my brothers too
Poems on my cell phone

                   Phone home?

So much fear, So much fear
Help me rest awake

Thai tigers in the forest
London's William Blake

Don't the moon look lonesome?
Lady of the Lake

UK, USA
You I can't forsake

                   Quake!