Saw Blade Runner 2049
In Bangkok
A piece of the artist always present
In his or her work

Yellow curry
Som Tam
Thai tea
Gift shop clerk

Mostly alone today
My dad in L.A.
Roberta Flack. Marvin Gaye.
Day 3. Slow.

Just to do my best
Qualyxian Quest
Both East and West
       Boonsboro.

               Yo...

droplets softly on the pool’s surface
       puddles in the parking lot
                    silently

Death shall have no dominion
In mysterious Solaris

Do we ever know each other?
Do we know what near and far is?

Space is the final frontier
Formed on a Hollywood backlot

Approach it without fear
Remember what others forgot


                      Angkor Wat
                       not Pol ***

Bangkok to Siem Riep
Only one Road

I am from America
Todd, not tod

My country did you wrong
I come to learn in peace

I respect Lord Shiva
More than Ancient Greece

I pray to the Buddha
Help me learn and wait

Are there many lives?
Asia early late

I walk. I sit. I fear. I pray.
Please help me meditate.

I keep writing because I ...
Rainy grey today
More family feuds
More hate than love

America began in genocide
Slave labor all around
For basketball gratitude
Thank you, Andy Dove

Might rewatch The Batman
Blade Runner 2049
First saw it in Bangkok
Renu Rodthongkam

Silent old monk
Women in Tai Chi
Motorcycle taxis
Nitnoy som tam

            Chan Um

i have trouble accepting the ends of things
relationships, each day, my life

i miss my Beloved Dead
i sing Cuts Like a Knife

the Buddha saw the transience
Nothing Gold Can Stay

2:22 all alone
Bangkok to Taipei

Krop Kun Kop
Xie Xie

Silent drops on the pool
     Motorcycle taxi
       Buddha mind

The Buddhist practice is compassion
And avoidance of desire
Meditate in silence

Gandalf: Serve the Secret Fire.

forget the philosophy
just the duty of daily life

driving, working, eating,
fighting with my wife

the politics so ****** up
Trumpism means meaningless strife

music is the mystery
hear the drum and fife

escape the terror of history
and it’s hateful hurling knife

Emmylou, Emmylou
Must admit, you've got a few

Garfield High, Potomac Mills
Michelangelo's ghostly stills

At times in the South
But I'm not of it

If I could
Leave not love it.

Thank you kindly, James
For helping me at the bank
The Irish indeed are silver tongued
They fight the Russian tank

Paul McCartney in Baltimore
Baseball, music, song
Confucius statue at Mason
Leonard in London late along

Me here in Mary's Land
Movies, books, vinyl
We forward in this generation
Forward but not final

Yo estudio
Like a Wheel - Gonna spin it
Un pequito point guard play
A shot at the end to win it

                     !3!

Walt Whitman stamp yesterday
         Distance avails not
            Time avails not


               Brooklyn bus
                   All of us.

nihilistic moments in Shakespeare
Hamlet, Lear,  and Macbeth

but his own beliefs are hidden
silence and music in Bardbreath

a long time ago the world began
and the rain it still raineth

to please us still in Staunton plays
his Foolish wisdom transcends death

In the end
The precogs find relief from their gifts
Peace
Not Ancient Greece

53 and falling
My father's house is quiet
Camped once near Mt. Rainier
What are UFOs?

I was lucky to have some good teachers
Drank tea in San Francisco
Jesuit Volunteer Corps
One man Overthrows!

Jefferson was a racist
So is George Will
I like French Cathedrals
Walked the beach in Nice

       Sting and the Police

Bangkok. Eyes closed. Tai Chi.

                     We.

                      Si.

Barely ate today
Hope to sleep all night

O the comfort comes
When I see the morning light

I try to look ahead
But I get too afraid

Step by step by step
The way the game is played

I do not seek salvation
I do not seek political power

I do seek human kindness
The shared sacred hour

           Hope for the flowers.

I'm definitely Barnes and Noble.

And Billy Crystal is correct.

Barnes is alright.
But that Noble is a real *******. :)

Said Billy Crystal.

😄

According to Billy Crystal.

😀

hot ***, not Pol ***
    tonight’s wondrous starry sky
             beautiful, she’s from Taiwan
                
               eat, drink, and be merry
                    for tomorrow we die.

Not a systematic thinker
Poems in the night
At times some contradictions
Chaos leads to light

Still in love with the moon
And Ms. Susan Meek
I hope she understands
t.d.w. Sikh seek

Now the little way
My beloved teacher Dr. Thomas
Help me keep my promise
Courage still to say

     Mail. Barth's play.

I prefer not to.

Alas.

(though I do love to throw
the football on the beach with my boys)

Shooting alone at midnight
        Lights click off
      One Dark Knight

O those 80s!

(Especially at twilight and night)

dribbling, talking, shooting
      at home, not now commuting
               no need for refuting...


                         happiness

Sometimes it's *******
To this ******* world
Sometimes silence
Sometimes it's rain on pain

Society, please leave me be
I ride the downbound train

Women are the misery
The disappointment
The *******
In vain

Denver, Colorado
Santiago, Spain

        Billionaire Bruce Wayne

Regrets are not very pleasant
Sadness in the night
Much I cannot change
Many things don't work out right

The feminine mystique
Smile, voice, hair
Yes, the lady parts
I'd like to do her there

The Buddha abandoned his marriage
I can understand
Toledo Witherells
Sage of the Shakya clan

Thai motorcycle taxis
Som tam from the street
Buddhamind in Bangkok
Christ in everyone I meet

             dancing feet

Aurelio and I again
Basketball court conversation
Wild metaphysical speculation
But mostly I am lost

I listen the best I can

On the walk home
     Point Guard


          Batman

Would I major in philosophy again?
Probably not, no.
Hotel/restaurant management
Seattle cedarsnow

Dancin' with pretty women
Dyin' in the night
In my solitude
I still see 2 green lights

37 on license plates
72 as well
Guadalupe green
Pike Place Market's Kells

I keep watching movies
A lot of Diet Coke
Batman Begins
Batman provokes

                 Chi Town