raunchy mysticism -
yes, me too

moonlit mysticism -
silent view

silent mysticism -
eternal Who?

eternal Silence -
One not-two

Mother's Day tomorrow
          Alone again
No more insult debate

    Prayers for Cate
Then without my mate


                I wait.

perhaps I die ignored
            silence my reward
                   neither from nor toward ...

                                  but waiting.

Said Heraclitus.

Said Pythagoras.

According to Pythagoras

Pythagoras also said.

Said Thales.

heaven seems unlikely
Earth unlikely too

where then shall we live
we who wonder Who?

All my internal drama
But my boring so-called life

Sorrow today and tomorrow
Think I'll talk a stroll

Separated from children
Agony with my wife

U2 on my stereo
Please save me Rock n' Roll!

That a woman could hold public office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I.

Said Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson held more than 600 slaves.

While holding more than 600 slaves
And having his white overseer whip them,
brutalize them, at times **** them, and sell their chidren down the river to even more sadistic slavemasters further south.

sought but couldn’t find
   but learned how to be kind
       merely mortal - nevermind
                    thank you

Said Aristotle.

According to D.H. Lawrence

The need to fight
I've got it bad
Man of Constant Sorrow

My greatest joys
Life as a dad
How many more tomorrows?

History and nature too
Nightmares do contain

A little hope
Purple Rain
Do wah diddy do

I've written so many poems
Because I'm so unhappy

Some of them are very good
Some of them are ******

Matrix Resurrections
Neo now is snappy

Thomas means the Twin
Flower Hour Pappy

           Constant Sorrow

crawling from Crawford
        San Antonio surprise
            puttin' out your eyes ...

        All Walls Fall
           collapse!!!

crawling from Crawford
     San Antonio surprise
            ALL WALLS FALL
                   Collapse!!!

Crawling from Crawford
  San Antonio surprise
       All Walls Fall
          collapse!!!

Wendy, Susan, Catteleya
To each his Dulcinea

Impossible dreams for you
May your Impossible Dreams come true

Thank you despite despair
Always I will care

Protective family
Love to you from me

Says Hamlet.

Said Emily Dickinson.

Dearest Emily: Warrior Poet.

Awake all night
Breathing in
I lay so still and think

Water, Water everywhere
Nor a drop to drink

When I am gone
Don't look for me
No more of me to find

I've left some lonesome traces
Farewell and be kind!

Wrote the Count of Monte Cristo.

some write because they need to
some write because they lust
some write because they’d like to

                  be as one who trusts.

I also write because  Charlotte chaos
blew my mind like Florida wind gusts.

Said Alfred North Whitehead.

All those years of reading books
All that middle school teaching

All the solitude
All the time toward her not reaching

All the trips of travel
All the useless fights

All the psychobabble
All my love. Good night.

According to Friedrich Nietzsche

America in gangster times
     talkin’ bad karma Blues, time to rhyme
               B.B. King a friend of mine


    All over again,  Lucille cries so fine!

No one important
Days alone
Little poems
Black cell phone

University of Chicago
Rolling Stone
All roads
Lead to Rome

Said Isak Dinesen.

Said Isak Dinesen.

Said Hemingway.

Said Hemingway.

As I am just as
patience. calm. persistence.
            Resistance!

         All that CHAZ

Tell it, Bob!

Colin Powell
A nice man who helped destroy Iraq
And a liar
And a war criminal

Paul Wolfowitz
PhD University of Chicago
Neocon
(Same as the Old Cons)

I'm ambivalent about Chicago
And the elite universities
Some very talented geniuses
And some intellectuals who terrorize

South Side
West Side
Worldwide
Razzmatazz

                   All That Jazz

O those 80s!

rereading All the King’s Men
American demagogue reappears again

Jack Burden burdened
The Boss’s troubled twin

A student of history
Anne Stanton’s boyfriend

The Great Twitch and Great Sleep
But he cannot pretend

To truly explain
The tragedy he’s seein’

Political contempt
Brings a bad ****** endin’

Those ignorant white hicks
Turn against you in sin

No good from the bad
Just the bullet assassin

But Jack not beat down
Gets the girl in the end

A little hope from Dante
last lines in rhyme

Into the future
Responsible in time