There is an eternal winter that lingers around my heart. It beckons with icy music, gray clouds, and marches by Wagner. Vultures, like ghastly puppets picking at my brain.
I drive it away with sunflowers and walleyes, fish fries and the gathering together of friends and saints, old soldiers that beat the odds, and the neutered con game. Leonard Cohen overcame, and so did I. Life was playing chess, While I was playing checkers. Well, baby, it's checkmate.
I didn't need lucky bamboo or a four-leaf clover, I needed to use the wisdom that God gave me. I made some changes in my actions. When I behaved differently, I found serenity and a Winnie the Pooh and Piglet sort of happiness. I was drowning, so I grew gills and swam away to a river that flowed through the Million Acre Woods, and now when I am on land, I waltz down Love Street.
Check out my youtube channel where I read my poetry from my recently published book, Seedy Town Blues Collected Poems, available on Amazon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1khU1Mo5AKE