According to Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Wrote Bruce Springsteen

There they were, the murderer and the harlot, in the dim light of the battered candlestick in the poverty-stricken room, so strangely reading together from the eternal book.

                        - Fyodor Dostoevsky
                     "Crime and Punishment"

God is necessary and therefore must exist.

Well alright then!

But I know he can't and doesn't.

That's more likely.

Gaiety is the principal characteristic
Of the Soviet Union

Said Josef Stalin.

My music is best understood
                             by children and animals.

I want to be as grateful as I can
Lately, so much lately, a solitary man

Step by step, day by day
No grand and far off plan

Watch them as they grow
Love them from where I am.

Emily mostly unknown in her life
Solitude in white

Mabel Loomis Todd
O! The Wild Nights!

Molly Malone in Dublin
Alive, alive, alive

Good Will Hunting in Boston
Fighting to survive

Me? Hey ** the wind and the rain
When I came to wive

Above to fly
Below to dive

Vincent Van Gogh
Jacob Von Hogflume

Beautiful yellow
Lavendar perfume

Search above and below
Let us Resume!

St. Therese of Lisieux knew the entirety of The Imitation of Christ by heart.

The power of the post office
Motion in the mail

Sometimes sings move slowly
But deep time snails prevail.

   someday:  what a tale!

He's going to be an astronaut
I wonder what he'll find

We saw Venus bright last night
The shine is in our mind

Morningstsar and Eveningstar
There has been a sign

O, where you are, our Avatar!
In apocalyptic times

Terror Management Theory

I was twenty-five and he was sleeping with all the women, and at twenty-five you don't stand for that, even from a poet.

Said Marie Laurencin, of a breakup with Apollinaire.

I don't know about the alleged wisdom of poets and philosophers, but I can tell you they come to see me as much as anyone else, said a temple courtesan in ancient Greece.

Dost thou call me fool, boy?

All thy other titles thou hast given away.
That thou wast born with.

It cautioned all ladies of quality not to run off with blackamoors and it warned all good wives to look well to their linen.

Said Thomas Rymer, finding at least some trifling merit in Othello.

Dost thou call me fool, boy?

All thy other titles thou hast given away.

That thou wast born with.

The change is technological
But the emotions are religious

I've taught in some very bad schools
And in some quite prestigious

Shakespeare in the Staunton night
Language gone prodigious

When I die, tear down all walls
Put my ashes on the bridges

Does it do any good
To get so mad
About our decline and fall?

I'd like to get
To London again
Train to Wetheral.

But money is scarce
The virus continues
My little life so small.

The Pope is right
As he said in Berlin
Eventually, All Walls Fall.

Almost no friends
Almost no money

So serious
But I find Steve Martin funny!

Aging will be anguish
Disaster and demise

Some good thing of truth
In America of Lies

And for my darling sons
A little fun surprise! :)

I need the quiet at times
Especially as I age
The Buddha died an old man
Wandering weary Sage

Thailand Land of the Free
Barefoot in the rain
Fray Juan de la Cruz
Santiago, Spain

Bangkok to Cambodia
One way ticket ride
Shiva, Vishnu, Krishna
4 formaldehyde

My boys at Angkor Wat
Me Mysterium Tremendum
Am I the postcard poet?
Should I thrill still send 'em?

Starbucks in Taipei
We at 101
May I right use May
May Thy will be done

         Midnight Sun

Si xie xie.

I don't understand women
They don't understand me

Nothing ever lasts
Nothing endlessly

My life doesn't matter
Beauty Baltic Sea

Dear Taipei, Taiwan
Asian destiny?

                Si!

A lot of stupid people
In these United States
See me in Taipei
Near the Dragon Gates

When I was 17
It was Phoebe Cates
Scarlett Johansen
Something radiates

Ordinary boredom
Lady 88s
The wish for Destiny
Squeezing past the Fates

Young adult novels
Poetry in crates
Highway to Hell
Markson and his mates

          Daoist debates

I've seen the Asian rains
Rode the bullet trains
Never been to Heaven
Never been to Spain

I'm fond of dear Taipei
2 years there - xie xie
101 at night
Silent is the Way

                 Ole!

Batman begins
Off in distant Asia
Huckleberry Finn
Face my following fears

Basketball today
Disney knows Fantasia
Rhapsody in blue
True, but nobody hears

I like superheroes
Batman and Spiderman
Superman is alien
Fortress of solitude

I like science fiction
My Mr. Spock Kite
Sleeping most of the day
Sleeping in the ****

     What's up, dude?

Even my very best
Still transient as the times

I taught 7th graders poetry
So I still love rolling rhymes

My regrets are many, many
My loves are distant far

Tonight the black night
Yellow moon, Vincent's stars

Youthful memories
Of lost loves and cars

Luna baby, Luna baby
Not the god called Mars

Future forward
Asian soup, Irish bars

I like the Asian soups
I waken a little early
Gotta get him there
School for my son

Tokyo
Kyoto
Hong Kong
Taipei 101

I hope that God has a memory
Within which I remain

Just bought again the cd
Of the Man of La Mancha, Spain

In Taipei and in DC
Took the Metro and the train

I'd like to ride forever
No destination lane

Maybe the Asian trains
Are the reasons why I came.

I live with futility
Nothing goes as planned
I like awake at night
It's true I do know ghosts

Not much utility
But I like the rockin' bands
Behind the clouds the light
The light has holy hosts

         Don't drink much
             But I do toast.

The depression hits me
As I drive home
Like the weight of 60 bricks

Dread annihilation
6066

My religious obsessions
Seem unbelievable
Even to me and mine

I should have studied Something Else
Her beauty is divine

If I die forgotten
Like I was never born
Give up your guns
Make women priests
Gabriel, blow your horn

              Twilight ...

Ridiculous the waste sad time
Mr. Eliot here's my rhyme
       There has been ...


                  A sign.

Leaving lovely Stockholm
Searching for a farewell gift to get.

I happen upon this sign:


Love is like war
Easy to start
Hard to end
Impossible to forget

poetry at work
while ******* on the can

poetry berserk
while wondering the Great I AM

the mystery only deepens
never to be solved

a drop in the endless ocean
and then it is dissolved

but you’re not a drop in the ocean
said Rumi at the top

You are the whole world wondering
The entire ocean in a single drop

Johnny Cash remains
Scotland in his veins
I can see some mystic Spain


             off the chain!

Will Ferrell on SNL as George W.
     Washington, Lincoln ....

                   Kensington

The philosophy and the religion
Probably a big waste of time

But when you face annihilation
It makes you want to climb

Mystics have their mountaintops
Preachers have their churches

I have parental love
And crazed continental searches

I really like cathedrals
And sleet and Sandor Marai

I'm scared, my friends, I'm scared
I'm scared to suffer and die

Even in a meaningless world
The moon still glows in the sky

I love with the doomblue view
But still I try as I sigh.

Wrote George Orwell