Category Humanity’s Insanity
Distance to Anywhere or
Would You Like Coffee With That? What does it matter, How I feel What I do Infinitesimal or less In the list of all Things, stuff, piffle Merely a passing moment A falling leaf An ant’s call to battle Depth of the ocean Distance to anywhere Near or far All different All the same Do […]
What I Always Expected
He was sure he could encompass it all Inside of his brain, his body, his being A world grown oh so incredibly small With little work all would be agreeing But we did not agree and battles raged Despite how tightly all were connected Not yet evolved, our animal’s uncaged And really, it’s what I […]
May We Have This Dance?
When all becomes equal Universal leavening So-called heat death We avoid catastrophe Sacrifice also glory Filling and fulfilling Sublime Such sameness Falls together No longer galaxies Stars, planets, people No music of the spheres Clank and clamor of life Lost within Undifferentiated chaos In and in and in Chaos pulls together Grows smaller, denser Seeking […]
All Our Winding Ways
What are the ways We navigate life Paths we follow What we choose Life chooses for us Locked in Sterile cubicles No matter How, how much We strive To create Make them ours Locked in To desks To dos and don’ts Our duties Trapped in cells Apps, smart phones Toys and gadgets Budgets, burdens Balls […]
Buy and Bye
Can you tell us of days, our future cast How we fared and how long did we last Not really important in the grand scheme Everything changes; know what I mean All of our glories and all of our horrors Blink of an eye; so much less than hours We all think we matter; I’m […]
Place Your Bets
I cannot tell you that I do not care World’s state leads me to despair All the greed, hatred and stupidity Can’t be the only one who can see Hate when I’m in this kind of funk Stinks worse than smell of a skunk Thank anyone who make me laugh Might even invite them on […]
Be Afraid! Be Very Afraid!
Anyone who lived through the Great Depression, World War II or was educated in the decades after the war is familiar with Roosevelt’s famous words: “…the only thing we have to fear is fear itself…” I always thought this meant we must not be afraid to act, paralyzed because we are afraid to do anything. […]
On Our Way to Oblivion
Time that I work from back to front Don’t worry if you don’t understand It is just my way of fooling my brain To discover what I don’t understand Might it be, I’ll never have answers Maybe I’ll never know the questions In a time and place like all the others Queries abound, rumors run […]
The Spaces Between
Shall we talk then Shall we sing Discuss Rachmaninov Analyze Proust Remembrance of future things Will you tell me No one knows What tomorrow brings As musicians fingers fly Over strings, along the keys Quickly, quickly Come listen Not only notes, words Intonation, intention Momentary suspension Of belief, disbelief Worry, care Moments in amber Aria […]
Someone Like You
Recyclers will come by Rearrange the atoms Electrons, gluons, ions To find some re-try-ons Smile if you want Won’t change facts none Happens to exploded suns Try it, if you have one Be careful though How you arrange them Confused, you rearrange some You might estrange them You’ll wonder how You ended up With something […]
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