either win or lose
either black or white
either rich or poor
either day or night
either straight or gay
either wrong or right
either legal or illegal
either dark or light
either now or never
either fall or fight

and yet....

neither this nor that
the Buddha’s sublime insight.

They praise capitalism's creative destruction
But they do not value spirit

All is calculation
They cannot even near it

If you come close, If you come close
To the holy hidden sacred

You have to remove your shoes
To show that you are naked

You have to approach in reverence
You are not free to destroy

The sacred will reveal its secrets
Then the silent joy

Tim Meeker said
My brother Sam is dead

This is blue
Not red

the insults and the ignorance
       the love of money really isn’t funny
                        abysmality

the overwhelming stupidity
of the American people

to elect this man
who manipulates the steeple

his hate is their hate
they freely chose him

now the Abyss stares back
only Insult knows him.

Despair for my country
Contempt for my kind

American ignorance
Now all I can find

My body grew up here
But not my mind

The arrogance, the ignorance
Willfully blind

Greedy and racist
The dollar their sign

Hate for the foreign
Hypocracies align

I pray the music and movies
Rescue the times!

Out shopping tonight
I write one on the run
Memories of Linkoping
And Taipei 101

Not a martial poet
I sing of young sons sung
Black the Night an ocean
When the Day is Done

Poe in Baltimore
Me in the Midnight Sun
Oh! that Reno snow
Blackjack. 21.

     Give up your guns.

The Americans are a people of Ignorance
Chaos in their Night

Free for their own destruction
Lost without a light

They do not read or study
They only buy and sell

Their President is their madness
A kind of Trumpfuck Hell

anxiety is the beginning of conscience
wrote the man in the Atlantic

I battle it all day
like some enormity or Titanic

then I walk outside
the joy of seeing my neighbors

the battle is within
but outside come the fruits of labors

Perhaps 100000 dead
In America alone

The virus spreads and spreads
We cling to our cell phones

Life itself is a disease
From which we all will die

Yet I pray upon my knees
For the lovers and those who try

To rebel with Monsieur Camus
Against the awful Absurd

Doctors, nurses, teachers
Tell me have you heard?

How fares the human race?
How fares planet Earth?

How to find in misery
The mystical mother mirth?

Yes, everything eventually dies.
Does reality rebirth?

Today i take it easy on myself
She's the one who did me wrong

American women are *******
I sing a little song

                    Ding ****

The constant criticism of humanity
Unhappiness keeps on spreading

Always finding fault
God knows where we're heading

Love is patient and kind
But so many people are not

Blue sky in my mind
Prayers for my brother Scott

                 Sir Galahad
                Not Lancelot

Lives of Defiance
Killed of course
Tecumseh and Crazy Horse

only a ****** up philosophy professor
could say: there are no moral facts.

the rest of us know this isn't true
there are some bad words and acts

i cannot prove it to you
but kindness is better than torture

so leave the university
see the suffering and disorder

then choose to protect your Shire
and boldly travel all the way to Mordor.

Mrs. McGrath on the 5th of May
Bruce blows George W. away
          my my, hey hey

She says God doesn't punish
Forgives even Donald Trump

But this was before Camp Aushwitz man
Appeared in the Capitol's ****

America's theology
Is idolatry of the nation

It's time to leave behind
This false Protestantization

Retribution at times does come
Just ask Abraham Lincoln

The lash and then the sword
Reveal what he was thinkin'

          Me at Kells in Seattle
          Music. Soup. Drinkin'.

Bernie on the rise
      Socialism comes to town

Ordinary workers rising up
        Trump's lies falling down

David defeated Goliath
      And this philistine's unsound

Time to Feel the Bern
       So America democracy can
                     rebound.

The professors are deluded
All they do is profess
Time tick tocks
I'm unsatisfied I guess

Tacos for lunch today
Politics can wait
Hidden destiny
Time to outwait Fate

                 right, mate?

Pressured speech is often prophesy.

I know you might not find this funny
But the United States is incredible

An entire country, an entire country!
Where the only thing people believe in

                            is money.

Trumpfucks on the rise
Ignorant USA
Smoke in the skies
Dawn goes down to day

All the Trumpfuck lies
Can't find words to pray
Cut you down to size
No nay never nay

The USA has elected a Demagogue
How bad will things get?
Somewhere across the border
Sleep 'neath auburn skies

                      I tries.

wish I didn't know now
what I didn't know then

American lies
from beginning to end

the white man's greed
his money to spend

freedom, oh freedom
it's all just pretend

Education is painful
Not a lot of friends
Wish I didn't know now
What I didn't know back then

Took two years of Latin
Wasn't particularly good
Contraria Sunt Complementa
In my neighborhood

Rome on my honeymoon
Mozart's Magic Flute
Poetry from passion
Not poetry to be cute

Nothing at all can last
The Buddha quietly knows
Kyoto train station
Kamakura snows

            Exes and Ohs!

The burden of knowledge
Violent men
Wish I didn't know now
What I didn't know then

Was fun a mistake?
Serious times
UFOs
China ch chimes

Shiva's 3rd eye
Burns baby burns
Yearbook photos
53 and I yearns

Me on the Mekong
Monks in the rain
Fortress of Solitude
Ms. Lois Lane

Monk with eyes closed
Bangkok at night
Emerald Buddha
Gatsby's green light

           Flight!

with authority
not as the scribes

beauty leading goodness
against the Ph.Ds - diatribes!

those dogs shall lick Ahab’s blood
but these dogs might lick you to death

his kindness to me was wonderful
despite my frazzled breath

gratitude, my brothers, for the tips
and the calming words

you I shall remember
despite this terrible day of the Absurd.

                          Thank you and Gracias.

Again, the need
For humility and boldness

Not arrogance and coldness.

This is hard for me to learn.

Please help as I yearn.

                        Amen.

Postcards again today
Patience for the placements
Still don't know what to do
So all I do is write

Beautiful brown skin
Running in the summer
Exoplanets spin
I see the Phoenix Lights

Movies in my mind
Gonna watch once more
Roxanne, Galaxy Quest
Good Willing Hunting and his fight

At times such isolation
At times some mystery
At times the Celtic Cross
Deep into the night

            Mr. Spock kite.

Basketball again tonight
After the pouring rain

Solo walk home alone
No bus, no car, no train

Thundercrack in the afternoon
Power in my ear

But now quietly before I reach the church
One dear deer

Man walks into a bar
With a pile of dog turds
In his hand
And says to the bartender:

Look what I almost stepped in.

The United States is racist hate
As the Demagogue does show
Paris in the sunlight
Vienna in the snow

I stay inside and sleep
No one will ever know
A gazillion exoplanets
A gazillion stars aglow

                     So...

The solitary, melancholy life of Matthias Grunewald:

Was he wholly sane?

Critics: Those who mistake their toy trumpets
for the trombones of Fame.

                      - Arthur Schopenhauer

It is noteworthy that on the whole children love their parents less than their parents love them.

Perceived Hegel.

The lonely, melancholic, solitary life of Matthias Grunewald:  Was he wholly sane?

The lonely, melancholy life of Matthias Grunewald.

Was he wholly sane?

The aggressive instincts are scary
Please help me with mine

September When It Comes
World of strange design

10 vegetable soup
Cranberry juice with lime

Me just shootin' hoops
Fun for yours and mine

               This time

Aggressive feelings are uncomfortable
I'm mostly middle class

But I have a need to fight
To protect and kick some ***

Words like wielded weapons
Looking for design

Space for peace and beauty
Guardian of the mind

                   Reclined.

I wanna see Shakespeare again
In sleepy ole Staunton
They do it with all the lights on

Shakespeare's a gift
Life is still grantin'
From charming Stratford-upon-Avon

He went to London
So did I
Mozart one Christmas Eve

Tolkien's Two Towers
Catteleyas are flowers
Ask and ye shall receive!

depression
  patience
       yo

The world can't be saved
But still we all must try

I love Marvin Gaye
I too destined to die

Don Mclean's Jerusalem
And, of course, American pie

The music of this country
Helps my sadness sigh

I'm lonely and I'm only
An aging geeky guy

           Life of Pi

not much dramatic
    memory like an ancient attic
             haunted house still problematic

mostly ghostly, plus ignorance Socratic.

ah the mystic madness!
   what within my mind?
       seek but does not find
              time. time. time.