Songs for the Land of the Living
While waiting weary upon my bed

Fezzick, do you see rocks?
If so, we’ll all be dead

It’s true I love the Blues
No way would I vote red

Into the Fire Swamp
Is where the Princess Wesley led

At times I too rush in
Where angels fear to tread

Courage and contemplation
Opposites must wed

Stop that rhyming, I mean it!
Is what foolish Vizzinni said

Anybody want a peanut?
As you wish ahead!

Songs for the Land of the Living
While waiting upon my bed

Fezzik, do you see rocks?
If so, we'll all be dead

Into the Fire Swamp
Is where the Princess Wesley led

I too at times rush in
Where angels fear to tread

Courage and contemplation
Opposites must wed

Stop that rhyming, I mean it!
Foolish Vizzini said

Anybody want a peanut?
As you wish ahead!

The yearning for the Deep, the depths, Sophia
But, alas, the shallows
I eat some pretzel sticks
Remember Harrisonburg

JMU is purple and gold
Never ever ever hold
Albert Camus
And I grow old

                O Shenandoah!

Women as they actually are:
******, Suggestible, Selfish
The Universities have collapsed
Better to walk alone.

Nihilism in the Night
Vegetarian sausage
Speeding tickets
Cell phones

           Coulianou. Ioan.

Plurality and Ambiguity
        Chicago snow
            Yo espero

Plurality and Ambiguity
           Chicago snow
               Yo espero

Plurality and Ambiguity
               Chicago
                    Yo

Seattle University library
Mario Cuomo: Who is God?
        yo soy solo Todd

Plurality and Ambiguity
         Chicago snow
             Yo espero

San Francisco Zen Center
But only for an hour
I gave her my troubled letter
She gave me Hope for the Flowers

Seattle's misty rain
Ferry boats in blue
Me reading alone
Alone at Seattle U.

                       1992

Seattle's homeless. Seattle's snow.

                         Yo

Walking all alone
In Seattle snow
1993
One man to Overthrow!

Ride those ferry boats
Quietly I know
Skyline on the horizon
Yoko yo yo yo yo!

A Man Called Otto
Gonna watch today
A couple months in Stockholm
A couple months xie xie

Stanley Yelnats and Zero
Mom. Dad. Bob.
Jokic on the break
Susan with the lob

Politics portends
John Brown. Nat Turner.
Wisdom Water Wends
Minority Report to fern her

Phillip K. ****
Emily Dickinson
In Charleston beans and rice
Won Ton Taipei 101

           Thy Will Be Done?

19999
Waking Ned Devine
Some other time
Guilt, but I still climb

Never right without the woman
Therefore, never right
Carolina Inn
2 flights 1 night's delights

Fire on the patio
Bipolar fascination
Heraclitus more than Thales
San Francisco meditation

A Man Called Otto
Me at Angkor Wat
JMU, Albert Camus
Mi hermano Scott


      The Old Man and the Sea

                  Si. I taught.

Absurd
Camus
  JMU

Camus. JMU. The Absurd.

Camus at JMU
   The Plague
      Absurd

Basketball under the lights
Irish clover t-shirt delights
               hoopin'!

Always searching
Desperation
Consciousness is pain

Catholic churching
Devastation
Cold November Rain

Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
Her hair it does remind me

Come Together
Heaven's Door a Sign
But they might never find me

Plurality and Ambiguity
Gonna be some shadow falls
Tryin' to get to Florida
Dodgin' them Georgia laws

Plurality and Darkness
Followed by a truck
I loved living in Dublin
A little Irish luck

Plurality and mystery
In ways I can't control
Country, pop, the Blues
80s rock n' roll

Plurality within me
Ambiguity too
Gamla Stan, Thich Nhat Hanh
Dear dear Tienmu

                 Oui. Parlez Vous?

So I admit, dear reader,
I kinda wonder
If I am going to be discovered
After I die.

I am in love with 2 women
Not my wife
One my Muse
One my Ex

              They both know now.

                 What comes next?

I want to help my country
Especially in its danger now

The threat is existential
So first I carefully bow

Then I search for words
That lead to the true Path

Beauty can be numerical
Poetry like math

1 tonight for my boys
1 at Taipei 101
Un pequito Espanyol
Un pequito Midnight Sun

Time tick tocks
La Florida for fun
My Mr. Spock socks
See how they run

      Only just begun ...

I don't have a hometown
Or maybe I have many

Walk the streeets looking down
Find my lucky penny

I am waiting for my money
Once again to drive

Solitude of travel
Solitude. Alive.

             I5

Back to the religious horror
Predation and nature's terror

But today I saw two butterflies
Does God perchance make errors?

Van Gogh said our world is a study
A study that didn't come off

I am quite taken with American Cosmic
Ms. Pasulka writes quite well for a Prof

Love is patient and kind
1 Corinthians 13

****** love is too
I wish I could show her what I mean

last need I dreamed of the Trappists
that I became a monk

here I am all alone
who would think or thunk?

don't own a car now
no manuscript in my trunk

still love basketball
but I could never dunk

       just hoopin'

O Life!
Please protect my Q
See him through

See him through

1 for Q
Magic in the Night

2 for you
Avoid the fight

3 for future
2044

Als Ick Kan
Baltimore

      Inner Harbor!

1 for Q
Magic in the Night

2 for you
Avoid the fight

3 for future
2044

Als Ick Kan
Baltimore

      Inner Harbor!

Sings 3 Dog Night

Mark in California
My small little room
        loneliness

The anguish of my relationships with women
The oceanic despair in which I'm swimmin'

Isolation is both price and protection
Is shunyata emptiness resurrection?

Basketball tonight
Michigan vs. UCLA

I eat my veggie burger
I watch the game hey hey!

Moon in mist above
Yellow light xie xie

Dragon temple in Taiwan
Episcopal church today

Celtic Cross. Daoist Way.

Truly Q
Yes you do
Wisdom too

Life is suffering
So I suffer through
Quiet in the night
Carolina blue

Driving, driving, driving
3772
Grateful for small victories
Reading at Seattle U.

          Ever ancient, Ever new

Florence Duomo
pink and green
          Italy

Sybil in my childhood
Something vast in Columbus
Actually Walnut Heights
I stop playing and stay still

Neo and the Oracle
She says Know Thyself
Cute but not too bright
My prayer is Thy will ...

Sybil in my childhood
Her smile big and warm
Courage in the storm
Springsteen in the heat

Prayers for Clarence Clemons
Chesapeake, Virginia
Music still within ya
Victory from defeat

        Mist. Snow. Sleet.

basketball in the evening light
      memories for when things aren't right
               I fall, I rise, I fall, I fight …


                                 my delight

Basketball tonight
Last night too

Solitary flight
But I think of you

I drift toward death
I sense the longterm view

When I disappear
Tell her I told true

             Who?

Dmitri Karamazov
I too like poetry

I once saw White Nights
And then she saw me

I had an awesome dream
I shared it with her too

Dear one dear in Dublin
Silence seeping through

                     2

Wedding in Tel Aviv
Wedding in Tokyo
              Yo

Good things come to those who wait
But not to those who wait too late
Mistake, mistake, I hesitate
Prayers for Susan. Prayers for Cate.

                     Perpetuate....

American politics is mostly Absurd
You don't have to move to France
She and I Florida sky
Twice the Homecoming Dance

Everything disappears
Years fly by like planes
Early 1980s
Jane! Jane! Jane!

My mother was a reader
Me at Seattle U.
I pray to the Madonna and Child
Help me to be true

                Not much
        Just the best I can do
              
                     65432

Not too well with women
With women not too well
Lonely as the rain
Thomas D. Witherell

Tryin' to hang on
Days filled with pain
Summer of 69
Then Purple Rain

             Karaoke ....

Vietnamese food today
Take two of my sons
A sense of the Absurd
Un pequito fun

I'm tired, lonely, bored
I've got a worried mind
Overwhelmed by the Absurd
I hope you treat me kind

                  Dailiness.

Awake in the night
  Comfort please
         Comfort

He used the word gift
And I have read The Giver

Don't want a transition to sameness
I want the River

Jonas can see Beyond
At times I can too

Like seeing the passing lanes
Here comes one for you

When you get it
Shoot it through

                                    2!