So I read that Steve Jobs
Traveled Japan
Seeking enlightenment
Before he invented the cell phone

Certainly changed my life
No computer now
Write 'em on the run
Rome alone

Rieko gave us enough money
To travel for two weeks
Cate dressed up like a Princess
Me like a Samurai

Deer Park in Nara
Kamakura Buddha
Kyoto train station
Even at 53, still shy

      Marty McFly

Just my little life
Help me get back to work
A daily contribution

             Amen.

Still i journey just
With my sins, faults, and talents

I once had vertigo
Yes, I lost my balance

But I got back up
I got back up
Got back up to fight

I am a Warrior Poet
In the last lone American Night

               Well alright!

Might as well keep writing
Though I have no motivation

Late night in the library
Like a lingering staycation

We are the language animal
We are programmed to converse

Despite the dread awareness
The all ends in that black hearse

                                                     Reverse!

I love rock n' roll
But I am not notably cool
California childhood
Backyard swimming pools
Mason Nation ovation
Times to break the rules
3 Universities
Several middle schools

                in play

Opposed to America’s battles
Against the Nazis and Imperial Japan

In favor of America’s infliction
Of terror upon the Vietnamese peasantry

Follow your bliss?
My *** he can kiss.

**** Joseph Campbell.
(and his karma of American
          self-absorption)

Sometimes it's ******* to this ******* world
Even ******* to God

Sometimes it's solitude
Lonesome lonely Todd

Libraries and bookstores
Basketball courts and trains

Helsinki harbor white and greens
Rothko Purple Rains

               Baffled Brains

Taxi to Amherst
Emily's dress
I've grown quite fond

Species stands beyond?

Seattle ferry boats. Twilight.

                     Japan.

twilight basketball last night
my black friend told me to be
                like him now

              and wear white

            I think he was right.

Nothing to believe in
Is no fun at all

Makes me feel like nothing
Though I'm over 6 feet tall

I don't need gargantuan
Just something sweet and small

I only want a little way
Not a massive Border Wall

To give my life a little play
Before the Darkness falls


                 Basketball!

They might say it's just the World Soul
And I'm a sensitive

But he sings of chidren as gifts
And I said God forgives

Taco truck again
On to the student store

Carolina blue
Post office once more

            Quaint and Curious
                 Forgotten Lore.

Stockholm summer cycling
           sweet Swedish sunlight
                        my family!

afternoon in Helsinki harbor
    white cathedral, green dome
                  Purple Rain!

After all it's just poetry
Some people need to write it

Ideas to me matter
I feel inclined to fight it

Stockholm is so pretty
Beauty by the sea

Science fiction bookstore
Calls at night to me

             Destiny!

today: sun sweet sun
but tomorrow the call for rain

my umbrella is true blue
like my profession of pain

but i too have known joy
in Stockholm, not yet Spain

cycling och scifi bookstore
Baltic beauty in my brain!

The quiet can be comforting
The quiet can be calm

I've never been to Gilead
But I do need a balm

Loneliness is difficult
When you're 51

Endurance more than happiness
You sense the setting sun

But cycling that day in Stockholm
That was young son fun!

Today talk with my boys
Winter and ice cream

All the writing started
Because I had a little dream

The U.S.A. is a land of hate
Think I'll fly to Sweden

Sit in the shop and wait and wait
Baltic blue I'm needin'

Gamla Stan scifi
Stockholm sunlit sky
   Hey Hey my my

I don't have a hometown
A hometown don't have me
I wander through this world
I wander silently

My parents from Toledo
My mother in her grave
Me, yesindeedo
I wish we could seasave

              Baltic brave.

One for the Baudelaire orphans
One for Mr. Poe
One for Things Not Seen
One for Reno snow

Eliade endures
Look out Saul Bellow!
Quietness allures
Bocce ***** we throw

        Mary's land we go.

Alone in the Inner Harbor
Sadness. Rain. Greyness. Pain.
           But Indefetigable.

He called me a gift
And I am grateful

I have many problems
But I ain't hateful

Even in childhood
A hungry heart

Life is more important
Than the greatest art

But music, O music!
Where to start?

when i walk around the inner harbor in baltimore i'm lonely as the rain used to hang out in the barness and noble bookstore but thats gone now barnes is alright but that noble is a real ******* aquarium with students also proposed to my wife club love miserable marriage 3 beautiful boys saw paul mccartney at camden yards let it be lonely as the rain wandering around the inner harbor poe died here when i die i dont think they will name a football team after any of my poems inner harbor walking water

                                            her daughters!

Punisher or Guardian?
Guardian I hope
Buddhamind in Bangkok
In Rome this Francis Pope

In America the postcards
Chimes of Freedom ring
Responsibility
Teenage girls do sing

Takin' people down
Buildin' people up
I do now love Zephyr
Still miss that Quayzar pup

I am a taxi service
That's alright by me
Fly from Baltimore
To Thailand, Land of the Free

                  Sanuk Di!

Yet more mass shootings
Yet more American terror
Herman Melville May be right ...

   Is the nation in essence an error?

Motorcycle taxis
         Monks
             Me

Bangkok's bustling traffic
     Tuk Tuk we took
        Buddha mind

Bangkok in the rain
  motorcycle taxis
     krop kun kop

Bangkok in the rain
   Motorcycle taxis
          My sons!

Bangkok in the rain
           Humid
         Shunyata

Do good
Avoid evil
And purify the mind

That is Thai Buddhism
Seek and ye shall find

Me on the Mekong River
I hope you treat me kind

Krop kun kop, Mr. Lap
World of strange design

rain drops on the pool’s surface
             silent circles
               Thai sky

I think I do write at times for posterity
My own and the big wide world's
Throw 'em far ahead
Unknown alone unfurled

I like science fiction
Arrival on my mind
Close Encounters still
Europa Report does find

Old friends fall away
No more 2037
Ireland xie xie
Taiwan 3011

Mark Rothko paintings
Roxanne! Roxanne! Roxanne!
Empty libraries
Nashville with a tan

           Rockabye!

.........insubstantial life..............
like a dream, a lightning strike
             an illusion

First sight of Bangkok at night
Like a fever dream

Monk in the silent temple
Temptation for me to scream

What is religion?
Eternity on its team?

Buddhamind, quiet kind
Meditation meme

softly, silently raindrops on the surface
    motorcycle taxi into the night
          a bit free - Sanuk Di!

Slowly guacamole
7 37 72
More than one life only
Bangkok Buddha blue

Patience. Exoplanets.
Hand on the baton
Science fiction movies
Sci Fi Gamla Stan

Refried bean burritos
Vegetarian summer rolls
University of Toledo
Cool Grey City goals

                Revolutions!

I'm not done yet, not done yet
Softfall Chicago snow
Hard left turn
Quite right night flight yo!

George Mason chasin'
Kurt Wagner blues
Muslim musicians
Spanish speaking Jews

Humble but tough
Not arrogant or cold
Something off the map
Bangkok Buddha bold

         Not yet told

Contradictions?  Yes, I have them.
This library is quite quiet
My boring little life
Gonna sleep today

The Catholic Church oppresses
But I kinda like St. Bruno
In my solitude
She flickers in my mind

Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
Which is another way to say
Probably he was gay

Neither church nor country
A little dailiness
Memories.  Sacramento.
In Bangkok Buddhakind.

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I think the Buddhists are right
We have mysteries within
I can feel them at times
But she doesn't say a word

Kamakura Buddha
Softly cedar snow
One man to Overthrow
I think she probably heard

Cristobal Colon -izer
Statues gonna fall
Names are gonna change
Men on first and third

Arapahoe among us
Seminole resistance
Navajo ignition
Boundaries get blurred

         Yo soy un Theonerd

I'm haunted by the past
But I think I'm writing for the future
Things need to change
Revolution in the air

Bangkok, Doc Oc
One for Mary Jane
One for Rachel Dawes
Somebody still cares

A protector, but not a hero
A protector who needs protection
Medicine
Quiet nights

Memories return
Toledo, Ohio
Satellite Beach, Florida
Harrisonburg, Virginia

           Three green lights

Bangkok in the rain
Motorcycle taxi for me
Temples at Angkor Wat
Please protect my 3

The Buddha sits in silence
I was a teacher too
Now I'm just a dad
Far from JMU

                  'tis true

Thai temple
  old monk
    silence

Bangkok rain
Seattle snow
La Mancha, Spain
Reno rodeo

Susan Meek
Overthrow!
La Florida
Tokyo

          Yo!

One elderly monk in the center
6 elderly women on the sides
                 Tai chi

               in silence