America is a racist nation
Time to reread Moby ****
Snow Falling on Cedars
Call Me Ishmael

Mr. David Markson
I've been to New York City
Saw Man of La Mancha
Me, Todd Witherell

       Rest. Dwell.

Said Anonymous.

According to a student editorial I read while preparing to teach a middle school journalism class.

The vast majority of them
With black or brown skin.

But the American people are too ignorant and violent to help at times.

Ichiro Suzuki
Bert "be home" Byleven

Reading Mr. Clarke
(Kevin)

Amos 3:7

Mario Cuomo
    Seattle U.
         Who?

broken marriage, distant sons
ignorant country full of guns
raging virus, the Demagogue won

                 American Abyss

But at my best I resist!

America the Meaningless
      sunshine in mind, nevertheless
                   endurance, emptiness

American Chaos
      Patientia
          Sleep

so much time alone and inside
so much time alone

she said she had woken up
in a real life Twilight Zone

Who do you love, child?
Lonesome George: Bad to the bone.

late at night we read
his Ipad, my cell phone

i think death is the end
i wish it was the great Unknown.

To His Royal Highness Prince Posterity
Swift's dedication
La Florida in El Futuro
Long distance meditation

Watching The Batman today
Gotham gone quite dark
We don't talk anymore
But I miss my friend Mark

2072
Nuclear annihilation?
Rothko green and blue
Please protection from predation

Diana Walsh Pasulka
Now that was quite a book!
Extrasolar water
Q studies with a French cook

          Chewbacca was a Wookie
   (but his friend just called him Wook!)

Jesus Saves
Buddha Recycles

Two of my uncles
Both named Michael

I now walk to my car
Inky black night

Multiverses are real
If Professor Pasulka is right

                                           Good night!

American Cosmic again
I will give it another read

Wilmington to Chapel Hill
Carolina creed

Eventually to Harrisonburg
I plant a mustard seed

I too Galaxy Quest
I too do a deed

Look up, Look up
Look carefully

        The sky is a neighborhood indeed.

anomalous cognition
    synchronicitous ambition
              UFO recognition?

Like a Grailquest.

It is both.

American despair
Is blowing in the air

It begins in the White House
And travels everywhere

A country whose leader
Truly does not care

The dead pile up
American despair

What is that smell a-wafting
A-wafting in the air?

What is that smell a-wafting?
That’s American despair.

Can’t get it from your clothes.
It lingers in your hair.

It emanates across the land
Where the President does. not. care.

American education
Alas, deeply shallow

Melville left school at 12
No Harvard, No Princeton, No Yale

American schools
They prepare you for money

But Momma
I wanna see the Whale!

Up in the middle of the night
Trump sends federal troops to Portland
Soon more to Chicago, Baltimore, Philly ...

                 American fascism

But are there not many fascists
In your country?

There are many who do not know
they are fascists, but will find it out
when the time comes.

                    - Ernest Hemingway
                  For Whom the Bell Tolls

dreams, illusion, and other realities
screams, confusion, and other mentalities
teams, contusions, and other normalities

                             Chicago!

Thomas Jefferson proclaimed
All men are created equal
And held 600 slaves

The biggest American hypocrite
But we see many more these days

sound and fury
         insults flurry
                don’t wanna be an ...

Modi and Trump in Houston
Bear hug, but not too funny

Are Indians now like Republicans
Do they believe in nothing but money?