I write at times when I'm sick
Sleep till I get healthy
The amazing Moby ****
Warrior Poets are stealthy

Grateful for this day
Again to see my brother
Exoplanets spin
What will we discover?

              the Other?

her home is Carolina
where nothing could be finer

but she studies abroad in Florence
and she might know Friar Lawrence

also speaks Korean
so I think of what I'm seein'

African, American, European, Asian
all in one lifetime purposely playin'

it's a small world after all
if one goes down, then all will fall

After all
They're only words
Cannot the Silence reach

Buddhist monks
Gently open doors
That is how they teach

O God! I loved
To drive my bug
Down A1A in Satellite Beach

Tombstone blues
And precious skin tone hues
Every one - truly every one -

                   And each.

Grateful for quiet
Grateful for calls.
Grateful for family.
Grateful after all.

            Amen.

The Republican Party
Ignorance and hate

My Uncle Marty
Georgetown illuminate

American Empire
Bound to fall, Bound to fall

8:37
I play basketball

               La Florida mall!

if posthumous fame is a wooden spoon
still I chant her name and see Flaming June

with her too late and far too soon
a few women now know I love the moon

I drive at night to Dylan tunes
throwout ******* Trump and his goons

still remember those true Taipei typhoons
and seeing Sweden’s Viking runes

took a world history class from Dr. Yoon
nearing 50, now past high noon

pray to plant mustard seeds
before I meet my doom

Tylenol and sleep
Headache slips away

Crickets still do cheep
Tonight no basketball to play

Emmylou Harris
Red Dirt Girl

Honeymoon in Paris
Oh! the medieval world

Students back for classes
Buzzing UNC

Have you seen my glasses?
Have you seen true me?

             Philosophy

I took a risk. It didn't work.
She did not understand

Music makes me manicmind
But I'm no one man band

I am a solitary
Like Poe I know Alone

I give thanks for basketball
And this little black cell phone

              the Unknown!

Her lovely voice in Linkoping Cathedral
Linking me to me past at JMU
Tak to you.

Albert Camus at JMU
            Absurd!

Futility. Absurdity. Despair.
            Silence here.
                    Deer.

The sense of the American Abyss
Lies and racehate and ignorance
               Dread Ahead

I'm a theonerd
Which means I'm lost and lonely

Some people phone it in
Others write telephonely

I'm used to being ignored
Lonesome George Bad to the Bonely

Who do you love?
Who's your one and only?

                   Sophia!

Uber ride
small talk

   thanks

entering Helsinki harbor
       white cathedral, green dome, purple sky
                            endless why

Sunlit Stockholm
  Journeying on
     Gamla Stan

Grateful for the sun's return
And for my son in safety calm

I sleep and weep and sleep
Sleep is Gilead's balm

The world cannot be saved
Death is just too strong

But love is the gift life gave
Viva love - live long! live long!

The powerless feeling
Weakness. Futility.

            sleep

softer than the rain
    misty mountain
              blue

The afternoon sun again
The best antidote to all my internality
Ain't talkin', Just walkin'

               Thanks!

no intentional drama
     ordinary boring
              steps

the very houses now seem asleep
    ticks the clock - time, death’s creep
              I laugh tonight, one day weep ...

    
        they swam with joy,
                             as baby birds do cheep.

No, I'm not a great artist
I'm an anxiety attack filled dad

The times we were together
Best times I ever had

I hate the ******* panic attacks
Nearly drive me mad

Sleep perchance to dream
Balm in Gilead

According to David Markson.

I've known my share of illness
No, it isn't fun

7:30 this morning
Talk to my middle son

Shakespeare in little Staunton
Highway 81

Cinna the poet, Cinna the poet!
But the mob has now begun

It's a ******* world, it really is
But rain came down came rain

Wash away the American lies
Wash away the pain

Wish i was in Istanbul
Wish i was in Spain

Just me in my little room
All alone again

i hope the sun continues
light in our dark days

sometimes only walking
is that way that I can prays

swirling my emotions
my mind winds like a maze

sunlight, softly sunlight
white clouds, grateful gaze

hope.

Day of futility
sleeping off a headache
Solitude

sick and suffering
    verbal abuse
           Vienna

not just not perfect
but genuinely tried and troubled

Fate in the old paintings
bursts the beauty bubble

I live in a late Empire
the culture now quite rubbled

despite my whitening beard
time to grow as does my stubble

Saw my two oldest tonight
              Forward!
                 hope

The professor in Spain
Who was taken from his class
During a lecture
Tortured and imprisoned
By the Inquisition
And returned to the same classroom
To teach again
Many years later:


As I was saying ...

:)

Don't you think Al Jolson is greater than Jesus?

Hemingway insisted Zelda once asked him.

Now Barabbas was a book reviewer.

I, O Plato, see a table and a cup,
but I see no tableness nor cupness.

Don't you think Al Jolson is greater
Than Jesus?

Ernest Hemingway says
Zelda Fitgerald asked him.

Depression again
I swing low
         Patience.

again the gentle rain
Melville thinks the Whale is
                  Spain
      
         Nighttrain Lane.

Have to let perfection go
Not possible in this world

Except to always try again
The Dragon scroll unfurled

Get up, Stand up another time
Don't give up the fight

The present may not understand
But the unknown future might

         Gatsby's green light.

I dreamed of Eliade again
Eliade and Einstein
Games people play
Things people find

        red, red wine

*** and Death and God
The deepest of obsessions

My letter to her odd
Sins and love confessions

Night again has fallen
The news is frightening bad

My first kiss with her
Most trembling I ever had

All I really want to do
Be with them as a dad

Don Quixote knew
The greatest sanity is mad.

To fight the panicky feelings
I stay inside and rest

Phone calls to my family
Comfort in my quest

The anxiety is expected
I've been through this test

Calm and quiet courage
Connection is the best.

twilight turning
  nothing to do
         blue

Rain again tonight
      Missing you
        La Florida

My mind often moves to apocalyptic
Sometimes very scary

Mentally ill and mentally mystic
Guadalupe Mary

I need help with dailiness
To be more organized

I miss my family so
Can you sympathasize?

My motivations sometimes hidden
Vague, ambiguous

Conversations with strangers and friends
And I learn again to trust

                  Carolina Blue bus!

sunshine blue today
maybe basketball

when I don't know what to say
Carolina vs. all y'all

Facebook can be fun
Oh! my Uncle Jack

Sam is loyalty
He goes there and back ...