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.

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...

Red Pine's Road to Heaven
Mountains in the mist
Silence is the Way
Everlasting kiss

Green and grey Seattle
Ferry boats are blue
Rain upon the water
I see Seattle U.

                2072

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

            El Futuro!

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

Little Raven in Denver
             Arapahoe
                    72

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!

It's only February
2/22
Still plenty of time to study
See you in St. Lou

Desantis is a racist
L.A. woman breaks on through
Like opening a door
Someone new to view

Bean burritos today
Just a few bucks remain
Watching the Two Towers
Tolkien knew Gawain

The Eagle and the Child
I ate dinner alone
Head Nurse spoke up
Could tell I was Bad to the Bone

             E.T. phone Rome

I've seen the full truth of women
No, it is not pretty
The haunting of the past
Terror in the night

Trappist exoplanets
Charlotte, the Queen City
Lost in Translation
Endless marital fights

Girls in their summer clothes
Basketball and soccer
Women astronomy professors
Dearest Emily

Irish eyes are smiling
Kells in sweet Seattle
Celtic Cross in Chapel Hill
Man said: meant to be.

          Event-ually?

Richmond to Fredericksburg
          Empty hotel room
                   waiting

The ambiguity is tormenting
In myself and in the world

But that's the nature of lifestrife
I pray for pretty girls

I pray also for my sons
And for my Beloved Dead

What to do with fantasies
Runnin' round my head?

               It's 2:23
      I'm awake in bed.

Palindromes are pleasing
22722
I like Stanley Yelnats
I wrote the author too

Didn't sleep that well
Maybe medieval France
In obscurity
Lord Shiva does his dance

Cliff Pickover in Taiwan
The philosophy of math
Donald J. Trump
Raging sociopath

Susan Darlene Meek
A wonder of the world
Soup: potato leek
Dragon scroll unfurled

                Patterns ...

David Brooks is a twit
Let the Iraqis at him
Libraries are quiet
Unlike Rock N' Roll

Not much hope
No job
No women
Probably no goal

          Sleep ....

I like my bookshelf
Fairly small
But still unlikely I will read them all.
They beckon.

Accumulating DVDs at the antique store
Building my collection
Probably some Civil War afficianados
Round here. I reckon.

Vinyl has made a comeback
I got Prince. Michael Jackson. The Police.

I'm still preoccupied with 1985.
Italy. Ireland. Taiwan. Greece.

         Perhaps. Probably. At last.
             Death will be Release.

This is poem 2300
so what do I have to say?

words are all I have
as I wander along the way

if you see her, send my love
silence is how I pray

the moon fineshines tonight
the morning brings newborn day

they see a double red lightsaber
(but I still have faith in mystic Rey!)

sticky sweat
grey day blues
     waiting

when you become aware of the phenomenon

the phenomenon becomes aware
of you

I’d like this to be the case
In both inner and outer space

But I don’t know if it is true:


Do you?

23456789
according to Cliff Pickover
      the number climbs to prime
               which makes me wonder
                    and reach for words that rhyme


                            puzzling signs.

Nothing supernatural
Nightride downbound train

If love is ever actual
She rides in Purple Rain

Rides to Helsinki harbor
White cathedral, green the dome

The boat leaves for distant Asia
I leave my hidden home

                      I roam.

Why this need to fight?
It will not leave me alone.

Please guidance and insight
With the terror on my own.

                   Unknown.

2373
not 2337

who knows what is meant to be
or whether there is heaven?

meaningless quite probably
or maybe 1111

I'd like to travel endlessly
strangers, light, and leaven

I'm not an Academic
Cannot give a lecture
When I die there will not be
A Witherell Conjecture

Once I was a teacher
Teacher of the tweens
Now I live alone
Rothko blues and greens

Women are unkind
Smoke gets in your eyes
I.P. Freely
George W. Lies

2 prayers for Chicago
3 for Susan Meek
7 for my sons
7 days a week

     ****. Nerd. Absurd. Geek.

For her: hidden hope.
And for this Francis Pope.

2:37 a.m.
Pasulka not ****
A star is born

I have to cope with insignificance
I'm not important, just lonely
My little life
My obsessions

                      sleep

White Nights, Fyodor
Florida Fall, Forgotten Lore
A dream, An awesome dream!