Which Mrs. Dewey
My Senior AP English teacher
Showed us in class

Satellite Beach, Florida.
1987.

Nietzsche associated Jesus -
The Crucified-
With the sublime
The sick
And the childish

He came from Lutheran pastors
I come from gifted Catholics

The Crucified remains a mystery
A sailor when he walked upon the water
Hidden when revealed
Found in Things Not Seen

                  Right, Martin Sheen?

Jesus as apocalypticist
Preaching the end of the world

Crucified by Pilate
Like a criminal so hurled

King of the Jews indeed
Judas the betrayer

Emptiness displayed
The silence then the sayer

              Apocalypse?
                  Engager.

according to Stephen Dobyns.

just language games, can’t quite reach
  behold her beauty, moonlight beach
       to speak of books - why I teach
                every person a world
                  every one and each.

Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Being Samuel Johnson's precis of the poet's life.

Despondency and madness. Being Wordsworth's summation of the end of same.

A poet is a waste-good and an unthrift, in that he is born to make the taverns rich and himself a beggar.

Said Robert Greene.

Ronald Reagan worked as informer for the FBI in the 1940s

Virus spreading among the students
Carolina blues

Sherlock Holmes beyond prudent
Deductive clever clues

Plato loved geometry
Pythagoras said, All is Number

I see 37s
I hope good luck before I go under

If they say apophenia
I say apophatic

I don’t have schizophrenia
But, yes, my life has been dramatic

Hospitals and jail
Police and ambulance

And also mysterious strangers
(haven’t seen them since)

Impossible my dreams
But impossibilities come true

Like wishes upon stars
And wishes for wondrous you

the name thing keeps on happening
but I know not what it means

perhaps it’s apophenia
but it’s curious as a dream

happening in the outer world
not only in my mind

is it true like in Apocalypse
what we seek is what we find?

then love is what I wish
for your beloved Dead and mine

and comfort for the living
in this world of strange design

the name thing keeps on happening
but I know not what it means

perhaps just apophenia
but it’s curious as a dream

happening in the outer world
not just in my mind

is it true like in Apocalypse
what we seek is what we find?

if so, then love is what I wish
for your beloved Dead and mine

and comfort for the living
in this world of strange design

If you fall in love at 16
But don’t have her for your wife

Why can’t you forget her
For the remainder of your life?

The meaningless oddity that one of
Washington's dogs at Mt. Vernon
Was named Truman.

137 again
    unknown, unknown my friend
                             Feynman and fine men ...

                            infinity?

It often appears quite meaningless
Signifying nothing

We're here and then we're gone
Could you pass the stuffing?

Thank you, ma'am - yes, I am
Finding this enoughing

But I do like dragons
And the hufflepuffing

Evil is intinsic to life
Can't be taken away

Evil is intrinsic to life
Surely here to stay

Goodness is a choice
The kindly caring way

When it appears I do rejoice
Then I say Xie Xie

I'd like to work in Panera
Serve bagles and vegetable soup

Speak with my coworkers
About Staunton's acting troupe

May I take your order?
Can I help you with that, Ma'am?

Yes, Emily, I'm nobody too.
Who do men say I am?

You alone in Amherst
Me now in Chapel Hill

If the last really would come first
Then the Empire wouldn't ****

The mockingbirds would fly free
Do you think they will?

The drama in my mind
I walk on silence seas

I feel i get quite close
Bipolar my disease

Within me is the mission
Impossibilities

51 and wishin'
Please baby please!

Martin Luther King Jr.'s grade in public speaking in seminary:

C.

These aren't bad people.
They just don't want their sweet little girls to have to sit next to some ******* buck on the bus, being President Dwight Eisenhower edifying someone about Southerners opposed to desegregation.

So I have the Buddha statue
Dark olive green
Batman Begins
I read Things Not Seen

Everything ambiguous
Very little clear
Noble is Cordelia
A fool is King Lear

Shakespeare left lively lofty London
To die back home with his family, man

He passed away the same day he was born
Like a mystical salmon man.

The unbelievable blue
Beyond all my words

Twilight calls to me
I wonder if she's heard?

I think I'm a geek
My son says I'm a nerd

The sadness and the beauty
The hope and the Absurd

               April 3rd

a day to sing for Martin King
   his courage in spite of everything
       revolutionary change he helped bring

                       April 4 still forming.

I prayed to the Cross
Went to the blue box
And I crossed the Rubicon

Notes Jesus in the Gospels.

Notes Jesus.

But I will never forget you, Fr. Greeley!

Erin Go Bragh!

I've fantasized about fame at times
But that one comes and goes

Plus I'm too shy
And still a geek - it shows

What I want is a vocation
Like the beautiful Seattle snow

Something and Someone to give
My all for: a Protector here below

I see myself as a Protector now
But one who also needs protection
The shaman is wounded healer
Therapy detection

I dream of Grandiosity
But I'm mostly daily boring
Loveliness library
For her for her affection

Sophia University
But I've never been
Drive South from Seattle
San Francisco Zen

The poet is an honest man
She gives me genuine hope
Catholic but not orthodox
Irish eyes the Pope

I never saw a goddess go
Don't think She's Way Out There
Now she lives within you
Her smile, her style, her hair

Had to be a writer
Santa Fe Un Escritor
Lonely as the rain
Inner Harbor, Baltimore

Got some ocd
Troubling proclivities
At night among the stars
Solo on my knees

At night among the stars
Cemetery is quiet
Exoplanets spin
You just cannot deny it

One unknown email
Books on the 4th
The Eagle and the Hawk
Still I Sally Forth

            Denver!

Martin Luther's own words, re the origin at Wittenberg Monastery of the key principles of the Protestant Reformation:

This knowledge the Holy Spirit gave me on the privy in the tower.

Martin Luther's own words, re the origin at Wittenberg Monastery of the key principles of the Protestant Reformation:

This knowledge the Holy Spirit gave me on the privy in the Tower.

When the homeless man died young
The shelter said Rest in Power
The Son indeed will come
But no man knows the hour

All men are created equal
But all women are definitely not
She is gentle like my mother
Please tenderness for Scott

The feminine mystique
She has a secret garden
Her name is Susan Meek
Excuse me, ma'am, I beg your pardon

                  Aqua Alta

All the criticism
Vanishes in thin air

Farewell to thee, critics
No one really cares

Slow go the plodding poets
Rides upon a mare

Awake in early dark
Venice is aware

         silent prayer

The sadness of the United States
Ignorance ain't bliss
But yesterday a-spittin'
South Mountain in the mist

Red Pine with Daoist hermits
Spirits, little shrines
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Zachary Quinto y Chris Pine

Andy comes on Sunday
I need to fix my car
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Exoplanet star

            Exomoons El Mar!

It's good to go down grateful
Courage in the fear
Grateful for my boys
Hold them ever dear

              Aqui. Here.

It might vanish like the mist
Like smoke
Like her
Like my mom

It might reappear
Like vinyl
Like Prince
Like Prom

Buddhist meditation
Eyes closed
Stillness
Deer

Please courage
Care
Dare
Aqui

               Here.

Thank you, Amber and Lauren
You talk and I do hear

Tolkien and the Russians
The Fool is wise (not King Lear)

My child in virtual school
My children I hold dear

Reality is hidden
But the hidden does appear

          Here! Here!