Now she lives in you
Which is what Pat Hinman told me
When my mom died.

               I tried, Mom. I tried.

Now in America
Is a season of politics
As good vs. evil

I hope and pray
we can one day
get back to
ordinary politics
as it is in most countries
most of the time:

ordinary human mistakes
and ordinary human efforts.

The Church is corrupt.
The President is a fascist.
The country is racist.
I am falling and often in despair.

Have I given up hope?

Yep.

Nope.

The politicians are now fascists
Because the people are fascists
In a democracy
Ignorance and violence climb up

San Francisco mist
Charleston churches at night
Black smoke in Reno
I miss that Quayzar pup

Kyoto bullet train
Angkor Wat alone
Taipei xie xie typhoons
Korean soup I sup

Snowfall shunyata
Fo Guang Shan
Buddhadasa forest
Chalice. Empty Cup.

       Jake Sully!

I've had a taste of poverty
Cannot recommend it

Two years in Taiwan
Yes I do defend it

A few months in Sweden
Now that's a lovely land.

14 Springsteen shows
Now that's a rockin' band.

          Raise your hand!

Eliade in Chicago
Now the Bucharest 9
Judi in Georgia
Hidden divine

Xiao down the street
Veggies and rice
Cinco de Mayo
Natalie Price

Long bath tonight
Planet of the Apes
Good comes from Evil
Wine comes from grapes

Antique store is quaint
New DVDs
Sometimes from behind
3 times on my knees

       Please, baby, Please

Less rotten with perfection
More like Johnny Rotten
The king is gone, Gamla Stan
Gone but not forgotten

We don't need a guitar man, son
We need better politicians
I showed her hidden truths
Now it's women's intuition

One eye on March 6
One on March 17
My mind in July
I wonder what they mean?

Memories
Threads
Dresses
Things Not Seen

It's ok to make mistakes now
Just do the best I can
Rosalita. Senyorita.
I want to be your man

When the kairotic moment comes
I will not make a mistake
She and I, a sudden cry
The Lady of the Lake

John Brown's Body
Strike while strike you may
Vladimir Putin
Dawn goes down xie xie

John Bull's tyrrany
All Walls Fall
Dublin to London
Train to Wetheral

      Let's Go Y'all!

local, walking local
basketball in the park
Black family reunion
Missing my friend Mark

gratitude for work
X2 once again
New exomoons
San Francisco Zen

But local now for me
Mostly quiet little town
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Bball, Bobby Brown

Philology
Yes, I believe it so
One man in the forest
One man in Reno snow

               37 below

Now she lives in you
That's what Pat Hinman said to me
When my mother died
Now is I was we

Lonely Toledo, Ohio
1946
Sacramento, California
Steven Spielberg flicks

Maybe Hitch Hikin' forever
3037
6072
Judi, Susan, Kevin

Quiet Toledo, Ohio
Santiago, Spain
I can see you, Sacramento
Pouring Purple Rain

            Night Train!

It's words that I like
Playful. Slowly. In time.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rhyme ...

My thoughts race. Even now.
Aliens in space? Where? How?
Cremation I hope. Like Sam McGee.
Silences, please set me free

Consciousness is a painful thing
Yes I wish I could sing like Sting
But I sing alone in my broken car
The American right how wrong you are!

Vinyl records, comeback tour
Ann Coulter - 'Mercan manure
I like the Batman, signal at night
Cemetery: two green lights.

I kinda like to wait
Solitude ain't bad
A little basketball
Help comes from my dad

I'm geeky middle class
Though I too know the poor
Knoxville, Tennessee
Adios Senyor

Dylan in DC
Early Roman Kings
Ding **** Daddy
They hear him as he sings

Can't quite forget Vienna
Photo in the snow
Had to show her strange
Now she Never knows

          Exes and Ohs!

I kinda like to wait
Solitude ain't bad
A little basketball
Help comes from my dad

I'm geeky middle class
Though I too know the poor
Knoxville, Tennessee
Adios Senyor

Dylan in DC
Early Roman Kings
Ding **** Daddy
They hear him as he sings

Can't quite forget Vienna
Photo in the snow
Had to show her strange
Now she Never knows

          Exes and Ohs!

Took some risks in 2022
Now I have to wait
My life is very boring
I live apart from Cate

It's not clear to me that God is good
I mostly think She's Silence
She doesn't intervene
Or protect us from the violence

The Buddha too is silent
So are the winter stars
So is she and 3
And this love that we call ours

Music on my radio
Prince for me and my son
Prayers for Taiwan
Y Taipei 101

              Thy will be done.

I kinda like to wait
Solitude ain't bad
A little basketball
Help comes from my dad

I'm geeky middle class
Though I too know the poor
Knoxville, Tennessee
Adios Senyor

Dylan in DC
Early Roman Kings
Ding **** Daddy
They hear him as he sings

Can't quite forget Vienna
Photo in the snow
Had to show her strange
Now she Never knows

          Exes and Ohs!

Giles de Rais.  Who fought with Joan. And became a Marshal of France at 25. And...

The hot bath brings comfort
Even in a cheap motel

It's a journey of long solitudes
Ain't no tongue can tell

I don't like American women
But I surely wish them well

Libraries are peace
Politics is hell.

I keep on writing the poems
I like them more than prose

I might well stop tomorrow
But tomorrow never knows

At the end of All That Jazz
God takes off her clothes

The natural mystical beauty
In Seattle's cedar snows

I'd like to find stability
But onward chaos goes

The suffering, The suffering
This life of ahs! and ohs!

Collins Crossing, rain upon the pool
Nearly 20 years, tryin' to teach school

Family far, children distant dear
So long, Jimmy Reed a-ringin' in my ear

Please, please help her; she is beyond my reach
Little Richard was the Georgia Peach

Good Golly Miss Molly! You sho' do like to ball
Susan Meek, my muse in La Florida Mall

Those silent drops pattern on the surface
Beautifully blue, like the eyes that shine in her face

Barefoot, I walk alone in the grass
Fr. Hopkins, I'll pray to you at Mass

                       God's Grandeur!

To be forgotten
Is such a sad thing
Life goes on
Until it doesn't

But to be remembered!
Ring a ding ding
That's what I'm talkin' bout,
Cousin.

they think my sacred signs delusions
and sometimes I do too

I’ve never left this world
or seen Beyond. Have you?

but on the other hand
I imagine other worlds

planets now in trillions
science a scroll unfurled

does it really all come down
to life beyond the grave?

many think that’s ridiculous
many wish to be saved

me I miss my mother
and my other beloved Dead

I talk to them at times
but silence is all that’s said

I live inside my mind
but yearn to reach another

that Undiscovered country
do our holy hopes high hover?

Wind all day
Rain comes tonight

Conversation
Helps me fight the fright

My sons at play
True delight

Protector, stay
One Dark Knight

adrift, adrift
        feeling for the future
                   nightlights?

for the wisdom to help
my troubled, troubling wife

silence, words and courage amidst
the suspicion, confusion, and strife

healing actions and peace
for her chaotic, angry, wild, and precious life

                        Amen.

Ah! women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Said Friedrich Nietzsche

Fearless into the lane
   throwin' it down
      Georgetown!

is this a crazy coincidence?
     he smiled and strangely said

or do you perhaps know Todd
     to Aiden's pizza lately led

no, I do not know him
     the tattooed Meghan soon furtively fled

but first she mentioned Stranger Things
    Quinlin, kindness, cred

I'm actually very American
The basketball, the Air Force, the ****
A man of constant sorrow
Lonely and forlorn

Though I'm very American
I do not enlist
At my best, my very best
I indeed resist

             Ignorance ain't bliss

I wake up, tired but grateful
For sleep and morning sun

Still some pain in mind
But my day now has begun

I try to be genuinely grateful
Despite sickness suffering

I too Maya Angelou
Know why the caged bird sings

                My bell still rings!

The Buddha sits in silence
The Americans continue violence

Bangkok taxi night
Baltimore twilight

Taipei 101
DC day is done

Mother Asia rain
Takin' that downbound train

The intellectuals are elitists
Though they don't even know it

Their snobbery is defeatist
Whenever they do show it

Wellsprings of creativity
That's the water of art

Intelligence beyond intellect
Heart to human heart

Intellectuals, professors, critics:
Please depart.

sinful proclivities
surely I do have ‘em

deep dark ambiguities
beg your pardon now, Ms. Madam

can’t believe in Heaven
though for her I true did try

she should live forever
that, my friend, ain’t no lie

It's easy to feel powerless
They have the Army and the guns

Words can serve as weapons
But they take time to stuns

Patience and then bubbling up
The people flow like water

I write for my three young boys
And for her beauty daughters

Sophia always slips away
Ain't no one ever caught her!

He says God is Love
Before She exists
Beyond Being
Chicago beauty snow

Aretha playing this morning
Natural Woman
Spanish Harlem
The Queen of Soul

Can't find my keys again
Get so tired of looking
Women are more interesting
Staunton all aglow

I'm geeky and bookish
Afraid of the limelight
Never been on stage
But I'm also Rock n' Roll

                 Think!

have a blessed day, the janitor gently
                       says to me

just that little caring kindness enough
              to set me happy free

I walk home alone in deep blue twilight
              cloud-filled sky I see ...

                           gratitude.

The warm weather's comin'
And the buds are on the vine

The warm weather's comin'
And the buds are on the vine

Ain't nothin' more depressin'
Than tryin' to satisfy this woman of mine

                      - Bob Dylan

I've taken some real risks
At times I am afraid

She may not understand
Please keep her safe and well

I hope that I can learn
From mistakes that I have made

One of the purest songs I know
Is Highway to Hell

Where are we heading now?
Ain't no tongue can tell

                  Help us, Ishmael!

No apologies
******* country


      steps

words that don't reach
     a teacher that don't teach
            alone on the wintery beach …


                                   just walkin'

Dylan in apocalyptic mind.
Who do you think
Hits him from behind??

If I say - sacred mystery
They say - don’t believe

So I watch and wait and wonder
In silence I conceive

No way to know if I am right
Can reality retrieve?

Last night I met a gentle woman
I think her name was Eve.

Train from Taipei
Ah! Fo Guang Shan
    Walking on.

panic on the drive, panic in the home
but quietly, quietly I ramble on and roam
                           libraries!

all alone in Uppsala Cathedral
  almost excuse ma’am, I beg your pardon
                            mystic garden?

Gonna be some schizoid stuff
Very very scary
Guadalupe Green
Please help me Mother Mary.

                   Amen.

All great thoughts while walking
Nietzsche and Aristotle

I too am peripatetic
Drink Coca Cola from can and bottle

She's in my mind tonight
I hope that I go boldly

Words become deeds
Before I am too oldly

               Galway!

I can feel it in me
Unstable
Drifting, Swirling
Explodable

Amerifuck fascism without
Ignorant
Racist
Violent

Tecumseh in Ohio
Nat Turner
John Brown
Lincoln

I don't do much
Basketball
Solitude
Thinkin'

     DC this afternoon.

          Dylan tunes.

I can feel it in me
Unstable
Drifting, Swirling
Explodable

Amerifuck fascism without
Ignorant
Racist
Violent

Tecumseh in Ohio
Nat Turner
John Brown
Lincoln

I don't do much
Basketball
Solitude
Thinkin'

     DC this afternoon.

          Dylan tunes.

Darkness again
Strip mall ugliness

A brief moment in the Infinity:


       I listen to Muddy Waters:
           Best wishes for 1 son
       Best wishes for 2 daughters

He has pagan babies
My children unbaptized too

His saxophonist a black man
His drummer is a Jew

Which means the band is rockin'
What else could they do?

I told her of my love
Though odd, I told her true