No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear.

Said George Bernard Shaw.

Shaw also said.

I have never been surprised to find men wicked, but I have often been surprised to find them unashamed, said Jonathan Swift.

I have never been surprised
To find men wicked
But I have often been surprised
To find them unashamed.

Said Jonathan Swift

The Dublin courtroom asked Samuel Beckett if he was Christian, Jewish, or atheist.

His answer: none of the above.

I am content to go down to posterity as a cut and paste man, said James Joyce.

Was he Christian, Jewish or atheist? Samuel Beckett was once asked in a Dublin courtroom. To which:

None of the three.

I've never seen a situation so miserable that a police officer couldn't make it worse.

                            - Brendan Behan

Ireland was misty grey
A little like San Francisco
I haven't read Finnegans Wake
But I do like the song

Mason was teacher training
Nice people
Quiet library
Mr. Harry Wong

Protection for my middle son
Slowly
Patience
To belong

                            Amen.

Bernini walked to the Gesu to pray every evening for forty years.

Think you Petrarch
Would have written sonnets
All his life
Had Laura been his wife?

Unlike most Italians, Joe Dimaggio does not reek of garlic, noted Life magazine.

the endless battle of the sexes
           the haunting memories of exes
                  unknown if there a life next is

still we carry on - time destroys
                                what resurrect is?

Bess, the landlord's black-eyed daughter.

The One both does and does not
Wish to be called Zeus.

we live in fear of one another
       alone, unknown, undiscovered
                  unreal, projected Others

Batshit crazy, but in a good way.

I've lost the will to live
But still I linger on

The deer at the Episcopal church
In the clearing at night the fawn

Seattle blue twilight
Seattle white the dawn

I'm tired, very tired
Was a woman often anon.?

As we become older
The way miss our life
Is our life.

           - Anonymous

Said Anonymous.

The scene with his mother
Winning the dart contest.

Vivid!

As I write this highly civilized people
Are flying overhead trying to **** me.

Melville sails to the Middle East
My man in the Holy Land

I too flew there for a weddin'
Melville: 37.

Waking and calling
They've gone bowling

Music in my car
Rock n' rolling

The beach in winter
Quietly strolling

Fighting fears with sounds
But no clear goaling

                    11:37 a.m.

No one important
How it has to be
Scifi Gamla Stan
Beauty Baltic Sea

O Life ! O Life !
Please protect my 3
Dailiness
Xie Xie ni

Coworker: What do you think is important in a leader?

She: I think it is humility.

Me: Which we need, especially now.

She: Yes. Especially now.

God is necessary
And therefore must exist.
Well alright then!
But I know He can't and doesn't.
That's more likely.

An American in Europe
E.T. phone Rome
Exoplanet sky
Another Earth, Another home

                     Not alone.

So in another life
We have a daughter
Looks like her
Writes like me

Europa Report
Ocean water
Ecuador
3733

       We.

So in another life
We have a daughter
Looks like her
Writes like me

Europa Report
Ocean water
Ecuador
3733

       We.

Baseball is what we were.
Football is what we have become.

Richard Nixon's description
Of students protesting the Vietnam War
Who were killed by the National Guard
At Kent State:

Bums.

Dostoevsky - the Shakespeare of the lunatic asylum.

Graffitti found on the house where Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment:

Rodya, don't do it!

California like mountain,
says the teacher:

Everybody say
All road lead to top of Mountain.

You never take one road, you never know.

I revealed many things
Including not me at my best

I love what beauty brings
But I too have some ugliness

I'm 51 years old
How many years remain?

Ah! Brian Stokes Mitchell
Sing La Mancha, Spain

I sing Sting
And the man in Purple Rain

                     Do it again!

allusions to fight illusions
delusions to fight confusions

against despair and sadness
a little mystic madness

tension, energy, balance
hidden vision talents

the Darkness and the Light
May the Force be with you - Good Night.

archaic Cave art
       symbolic at heart
               another world apart

True, I Quest for coincidence and mystery
And true, I dread the terror of history

Myths in religions are sacred stories
But now so many discount those glories

I find my heart in fantasies
Even though she doesn’t find me

It’s not just escape, I truly mean it
More a place to try and redeem it

Fragile magic, impossible Dream
Despite despair and my silent scream

I can’t give up, though I know I’m mortal
I keep on looking for the poetic portal.

I think i want another world
In fact, I know i do

Thin Red Line, Plato hurled
Lina and her Doon

It might not be; but it just mightmay
Beauty Flaming June

I'd hold her music moonlight
Luna Susan Swoon

Morningless sleep
That's what Epicurus called death
A Republican wetdream
Nobody Woke

What Americans value most is money
All those SUVs
Doctors with degrees
George W. Lied. Nobody spoke.

Avatar 2 was boring
Paul Theroux's Deep South
Buy a sword
Sell your cloak

Mr. David Markson
Viva Mexico!
Senyor Santayana yo ...
Alone. Tired. Old. Sick. Broke.

Unusually attracted to the sacred
but truly, I ain’t a saint

It’s the stories and the symbols
That almost make me faint

But I’ve never left this world
Which money, misery and malice taint

I just stare at the moonlit sky
And Salvador Dali’s strange paint

Andrew at St. Andrew’s
    magic and tragic
        Exoplanets!