So I'm back to 72
See it on license plates
Probably apophenia
Maybe Kabbalah

Books, movies, records
But I still can't find Her
Die unfulfilled
Can't be satisfied

Sky windy fade
Blueglowyellowyearnblack
Arakkis like Iraq
The Sky! Pi! The Maid!

I would like to kiss her
Tell her. Show her.
Hold her.
Get Heavenly Aid.

                  Portrayed.

In 1972
I was only three years old

If anything can stay
It surely is not gold

Pony Boy, xie xie
Hardest hue to hold

King Lear is the play
Cordelia's truth untold

Cordelia: silent. noble. bold.

72 temples at Angkor Wat
72 disciples of what Confucius taught

72 names in the Kabbalah
I wish, I wish for the mystic ah!

I was afraid of Facebook
Afraid to see her again
But now I'm always on
7210

I drift, I drift toward death
Quiet little town
She opens her purple bag
Silently her gown

She is always out of reach
And always 17
That yearning twilight blue
I've got a thing for green

Loyola loyalty
Alone in Seattle U.
Alex writing in Tucson
Carolina blue

             Seattle Slew

The Baltic is beauty on a summer night
The Thai singers sing Dancing Queen
Scifi bookstore in Gamla Stan
7217

Trying to sleep on the DC metro
Everyone carries a gun
Hong Kong in the New Year
Y Taipei 101

Fly from San Francisco
Land in Tokyo
Miso soup and moonlight
On and on we go

       No one really know

           Kamakura snow

7237
For Jerusalem I pray

7237
Brave the mystic Way

7237
Father Greeley freely

7237
Nerves strong and steely

Movies, books, music
But they can't quite can't quite reach
For almost 18 years
I tried I tried to teach

Now I just lay in bed
Memories of her
They say God is Dead
The rest is just a blur

She knocks on my door
Talk, kisses, licks
3772
72666

San Francisco Zen
Seattle ferry boats. Kells.
Exoplanets spin.

         Wetheral. Witherells.

                     Rebel Yells...

So much isolation
Grateful for phone calls
O life! Please protect him
I wait. Yes I wait.

Not much to do tonight
Mind on further future
Politics is madness
Candidates debate

Movies make me ponder
Dark Knight, Midnight Special
Neo with the Oracle
She believes in Fate

Darkness about to fall
World in wide rotation
Endurance. Small steps only.
Travel mates my date.

Workin' hard in Carrboro
Old books, mystic flight

Workin' hard in Chapel Hill
Basketball at twilight

I'm watching and I'm waiting
Surely others are too

If I see the passing lanes
Look for one from me to you

If we score, they have 71
But we have 72.

So I'm fond of little Reno
A lot of poorer white people
With a lot of tattoos

My little school was charming
I cannot play kazoos

I read some theology
One life one thing to lose

Hey Get Rhythm
When you get the Blues!

I read a lot of books
But I just could never find her
In my solitude
3333

Reno black smoke
Saint Thomas More
Verona, not Elsinore
In Baltimore: Let it Be.

Susan's gentle voice
Bold Jimmy Joyce
California's Josiah Royce
The Beloved Community

Loneliness unspoken
Sick, suffering, broken
Frank Sinatra"s Hoboken
    Freehold, New Jersey

             xie xie ni

American atheism is a hard sell
If all are created equal

Avatar was a good movie
I'd like to see the sequel

Morning light is coming in
I let the past be past

Many places have I been
In Dublin I went once to Mass

I like tacos, chips, and salsa
I read about the Border

Inspiration comes from dreams
Not from the quest for order

Religion is ambiguous
Even ambivalent

Many, many earthly prelates
Believe they're heaven sent

The whale swims on quite silently
Silent as the eternal divine

Mi casa est tu casa
Would you like to share the wine?

Father Greeley
72 nonfiction books

Jesus' disciples
72 sent to look

One Dark Knight
Chicago Skyscraper wilderness

Roger Ebert review
He's still the best

Damaged, but trying to do good
For the neighborhood.

72 hours to the election
How many years until some peace?

Parenthood is resurrection
I admit I'm amazed by ancient Greece

Rick Steves taught me much about Europe
Traveling taught me much about Asia

Into the Spiderverse is my favorite animation
But I also remember Fantasia

Rhyming to me still is fun
Like sounds seeking soulmates

The arts give gifts from the Muses
Even after they suffer the Fates


                    Beyond dates.

We forward in this generation
Distances
But we do not finish
Instances. Pass it on.

Beautiful sunlit day
Raspberry sorbet
Movies
Gamla Stan

God sends forth evil, terror
Why? Nobody knows.
I'd like to kiss her once.
Rocky Mountains. Reno snows.

American Despair
But also Ms. Susan Meek
Theogeek
Yoko yo yo

                     So ....

72 microseasons
Nippon summer nights
Rieko y Takahiro
101 in lights

Kobayashi Issa
Born on June 15
Slowly, snail, slowly
Irish eyes are green

   Arigato, Susan Darlene...

The critics don't understand
I don't wanna be one
Take me by the hand
Stroll, baby, stroll

I'm lonely as the rain
Exoplanets spin
Yearning still within
50s Rock 'n Roll

Autobiography
My mind in meditation
Long live Mason Nation!
Give away your guns

Sonnet 130
Talk to me nerdy
Stone so sturdy
Sunlight for my sons

              7331

The loftiness comes on and scares me
Like my dad I too can fly
Got a gardening book
Gonna reread Life of Pi

Politics portends
Sesame says I
Gonna need some future friends
Hidey Hidey Hidey High!

              Ay! Ay! Ay!

7:37
And I now look up

Birds outside my window
No whiskey in my cup

The trophy wives always sign
Elaborate pre-nups

Quayzar was a wonder dog
Got him as a pup

7:37
And I'm alone again

7:37
Palindromic Zen

I'd like to What Exactly?
Don't know what or when

7:38
Oh the times that could have been!

Blake
Chicago and the Lake
Mind forged manacles

7:37
I wake, wait, and wonder

Hey, Stanley Yelnats!
Can you hear the thunder?

Teaching was a good job
I like reading books

Susan is so gentle
And I like the way she looks

America is Absurd
The future looks quite grim

Think I'll sleep today
And I'll pray for him

And remember Aqua tots
Where my Cam Cam did swim!

7:37
Palindromic time

Live not on evil
Find some words that rhyme

Writing again today
Scifi postcards

Moonlanding stamps
My attempt to be a bard

        Criticism is easy
           Life is guard

7:37
Stanley Yelnats and Zero

7:37
Batman as superhero

7:37
The Dao withdraws and hides

7:37
I pray the fear in me subsides

7:37
Is life a farce or mystery?

the engine is still revvin'
she says the engine synchronicity

daily life boring peaceful
mostly I just sleep

boring fine with me
exciting leads to weep

but 7:37
hey, that's a Palindrome!

and I admit I search for signs
when I wonder far from home

                     Rome?

Class of '72
Reunion in Harvard Square
I interviewed in Cambridge
Some of my changes were there

Wedding in Tel Aviv
I danced with Lee Tal's cousins
72 on license plates
72 equals 6 dozens

I keep on keep on writing
Not really sure what to do
Gotta get my car inspected
Maryland for my crew

Kanye West in Frederick
Cornel West preview
West Coast girls love Tupac
Northwest Seattle Slew

                   7372

7373
And it's ok to die
I sing Let it Be!
I drop off Life of Pi

The self as an Abyss
Infinite the sky
Embers closing kiss
Y Judi Y

Can't quite reach
Very solitary
Bless you, Satellite Beach
Thank you, Mother Mary

Dread annihilation
The Buddha's gentle smile
Friendship for my sons
Walking down the aisle

              El Futuro!

American society is abusive
The violence comes at night

I'd like to fly to Istanbul
Vegetarian delight

I wake a little early
7:37

Don't believe in life after death
My sons my idea of heaven

                Take care, Kevin.

I've known the mystic madness
And I've seen my country fall

Though I feel the sickness sadness
I stay play basketball


                                Swish!

Some performers sing at you.
I never wanted to be that kind of performer.


I want to sing to you.

                       - Bob Dylan

I've known the mystic madness
and I've seen my country fall

No more sickness sadness
I'll just play basketball

                                        Swish!

My favorite singer wrote of me
That should be enough
No more drama in my days
Drifting to Great Sleep

But I still have the postcards
The urge to fight returns
I remember Bangkok
Remember too Siem Riep

Morning light appears
7:39
Birds outside my window
Kierkegaard did leap

She said please stop. I did.
Wish I could forget her.
If a Multiverse ...
(just dreaming of the Deep)

73 percent against the Americans
But 37 percent for
Bryan Adams a Canadian
James Bond. ***** Galore.

Un pequito Espanyol
Though I wish I did know more
Santa Rosa son
4044

Denver, Colorado
Taos. Santa Fe.
New Orleans. Detroit.
I could go all the Way.

Silent in the Night.
Silent outside the Church
Charleston all it up
Kingfisher. Raven. Perch.

              waiting

Another quiet morning
Prayers come from my cousin

Help me organize
Help me dailiness

Scott and Ry away
Keep them safe and warm

Alex on my mind
Shore amidst the storm

           Spanish forms

Unknown is relaxation
Quietly to breathe

Some avoid taxation
Some need a reprieve

Soon I make the call
We read again tonight

Santa Rosa born
California light.

Me in Dublin, Ireland
She in Dublin, Ohio

Me in Reno
He in Sacramento

My books
Her tulips

Me in Charlotte
She in Denver

Me in panic
They protected


Thankfully!

......For my dad.......

On his 77th birthday

        Thank you

So ambivalent about Chicago
Neocons
Same as the Old Cons
Lady of the Lake

Only free in dreams
I play for my teams
Plato
Cakes to bake

Plato
The Cleveland Guardians
So many American racists
Windows shake

Little poems
Short stories
Lonely life
Yo espero not a mistake

               1987
            Heartbreak!

7 cities contend for Homer dead
Through which the living Homer begged his bread

The poor in America despised and scorned
But hear ye imperialists, you have been warned

Portland rioted after Trump's night
The rioters too overwhelmingly white

Seattle Emergency Housing into view
Kells Irish bar has music too

Staunton where you can hear the Bard
The snowfall soft and pure not hard

Reno where you can place a bet
The Wheel still spins and you can get

A ride to Rachel on  375
Professor Pasulka, your book might thrive

Haven't yet been to Quinlin, Arizona
But I did play basketball with Kevin Blazona

And if you ever get back to Satellite Beach
Tell everyone there of its long, long reach!

The bipolar I've learned to live with
But anxiety I have not

The terror of the end
Please help my brother Scott

Cucumber sushi rolls
As the White Supremacists plot

Georgia on my mind
Ray Charles: thanks a lot!

You call it apophenia
I call it apophatic

You say early schizophrenia
I say poetry dramatic

The paranoaic-critical method
Like my man Salvador Dali

I shake with anxiety
But I get up and I rally

And I still got Mark in Cali!

.......Merton.....
Samut Prakan
    burnt man

Teaching Carl Hiaasen
             Florida
              Flush