In case you are having one of those days…
Just Encase
In case
You didn’t know
It was open
And shut
The fuck up
In case you are having one of those days…
Just Encase
In case
You didn’t know
It was open
And shut
The fuck up
Simplify.
The Goods
Is it even passible
To get
Enough
Goods, goods, goods
When a singular good
Would be amor
Then enough
This poem is a reflection on the laziest form of humanity, demonizing enemies, to oppress and kill large swathes of peoples around planet earth…
True Lies
Q: Have you ever killed anyone?
A: Yeah, but they were all bad.
–from the movie, True Lies
In the beginning
There was chaos
And ever sense
In order
To make right right, right?
That witch is left
Seeing won
An other
With demon eyes
They were all bad
They were all all bad
Apparently, the Disruptor-in-chief IS the bomb…
Get, The Memo
Did you get
Get
Get
The memo
“Blowing things up”
Is no longer a metaphor
May you have a wonder filled day. NOTE: If you wonder how your day filled up so fast, you are welcome to start your day over at any time…
Anew Day
Birds sing anew
In the mourn breaking
A bit free from yesterday
That holy weigh
Light lifting
Fresh heir
At awe that passes
The presence
Giving
Rise to the future
I in tend to study war no more forever…
Wore No More
Along with the sword
I laid down the gauntlet
Wore no more
I proffer a challenge
In efface of know more death
Wear peace is the weigh
Knot arms upon arms
And armor upon amor
Last Fall, I wrote this poem about mass shooting incidents in America. I didn’t expect the impetus for publishing it would be a mass shooting blocks from my house, and during the best neighborhood festival around. I consider Toledo and the Old West End where I live to be a hidden jewel in the Midwest. I still do. Unfortunately, we can’t expect to dodge the decay of American society. Sadly, this poem, written many months before, is a little too spot on…
Black Pill Shooters
Ever there is a shooting
We want to no
Why, why, why
Such why’s guise
In a post, post, post modern
Asinine nation
In deep, deep, deep
Alien nation
Sow so-so wanting normal
De-fault a la mode
Taken too extremes
Red pill
Angry and aggrieved
Blue pill
Depressed and unbelieved
When as a madder of fact
Depressingly taken
Buy black pills
That don’t work
Or have sects
But accost allot
To every won unconcerned
Or what does it mean
Too be a man
Drug threw life
To knot no a preyer
Where awe is
Game
Gamer
Gamiest
Too high
Heaven
Or low
Be helled
As everything aloud
Delivering affront page knews to us
And them, and soully then, silence
There is only one quest in
What is there, too a void
There is a pill for that
As main lyin’
Nihilism
Leveling the plain feeled
Accept the pitch, black
Why hole down yourself
Too purely won pill
Such as red pill or blue pill
Why not get down with that black pill
Mix every color together
And somehow void
That crappy rainbow
And what due you get?
Won pill too rule none
No holes barred
Why, why, why is everybody
Up in arms
A bout
Shoot, who cares any amor
As life turns out
I am munition
After realizing what the world calls being a “winner”, I find myself, happy to be a “loser.”
A Singular View – Owed to No Won Ails
For awe
My hope
And transcendent ambition
I could not altar the whirled
Still
I found myself
Taking it
Awe in
Having bequeathed
After awe this time
Just
A show no won wants to see
My bearing
The fruit of an other labor
As a mass
A singular view
The center of gravity of the body politic might kill US. To a void, such a grave situation, we need clarion voices in the wilderness…
Voices in the Wilderness
They temped to silence the voices
In the wilderness
Wile in craven desperation
They sot
Infamous ends
Wanton means
Leading
To black swan songs
A grave abet
Annihilating the wilderness
Itself
Murder-suicide
A poem about the owner class…
Landed Gentry
If you have
Ever
Whined and dined
A bout
Finding good renters
Or managing your property
The hassles of being
A land lord
I can soully proclaim
The gentry have landed
Perhaps my greatest intrigue in the life of the Buddha is reflected in this poem…
I of the Storm
Buddha, a Bodhisattva, remained in Enlightenment – the “Great Compassion” – forestalling Nirvana – “blowing out” – to help end the suffering of others.
For near eternity
I was planted
At the center of the whirled
Still
I extended my hand
Into the temp-est of awe
With such gust, oh, gust, oh
Gust
My won hand is slapped
The soul sound of victory
NOTE: The “sound of one hand clapping” is one of the more famous Zen koans, a paradox to be meditated upon that is used to train Zen Buddhist monks to abandon ultimate dependence on reason and to force them into gaining sudden intuitive enlightenment.
I wish the world was divided merely in half, instead of haves and have nots. Even sow, I gladly caste my allot with the poor…
Haves and Halve Knots
How did we get
In two this mess
Divorced from won
An other
Torn as under
And how due wee
Get out!
As knot unraveled
I proffer to
Caste my allot
With the poor
As a pose to the haves
And halve knots
A cut above the wrest
NOTE: the last two lines refer to the cutting of the Gordian knot, a metaphor for a complex, intractable problem that seems impossible to solve. The phrase comes from the Greek legend where Alexander the Great cut an intricate knot with his sword, demonstrating an unexpected solution to a seemingly unsolvable problem.
There are heavenly places within known horizons and beyond known horizons…
A Knew Horizon
Wear earth
Metes heaven
Can seam
Sew far
Aweigh
As a knew
Horizon
Wear heaven
Metes earth
A symmetry
Divining awe
In between
Our dear leader seems to be in an arms race with himself, with stupid lying vying with utter foolishness. At some moments, my comfort is that when evil is pared with incompetence, there is some mitigating effect. I am eagerly awaiting the day when it is normal to see that making the village idiot the most powerful person in the world is the height of foolishness.
A Nation Stupefied
He made US
Promises
A bout peace breaking
Out
A mist affordability cries
He laid out his word
Iran
The country
Into the ground
A cryptic goaled monument
To hymn self
A nation stupefied
And just saying
We have been
Played
Buy the Trump card
God is more, then you can think…
More
She could not say
What God might
Holy be
She did acclaim
Awe you knead
To know
God is
More
And amor
That unending reach
In two
One’s heart
Ore more
“Wherever two ore more is gathered…”
We are all boarders on planet earth divided by many artificial borders…
Borders
They drew first
A straight line
Too the heart of the madder
A dividing lyin’
Between the whirled of things and people
Cutting
Through
Awe that is real
Then
As convenienced
Fallowing the gentle curves of nature
Rivers and shore lines
And fore what
The accost
As they billed a map
Posedly representing reality
Or at leased realty
And figuring
Out people
There own
As nations state
Their setup
Sovereignty
Verses sovereignty
A law
Which man maid
Property rites
Above awe
The law is made for man, not man for the law.
I am fascinated by leaning into possibility as posed to mirror probability. This might, vary well, be the difference, between being free and being controlled…
In Awe Probability
In that moment
I saw ten thousand possibilities
In each
And every
Snap of would in the forced
Creak in the hows
Rumble of war
That God must
Laugh
At our knead to control
I’ve been reading the Tao Te Ching again lately. I find this writing perhaps the most succinct way to access our source of being…
Tao Remains
The Tao
Before I was borne
Well, as I live and breathe
And when I am only remains
Tao remains
If we have a revolution in America, I suspect that it will be due to massive income inequality…
Top Down, Bottom Up
If you don’t get it
As a madder of fact
That’s exactly the point
Of that rich love
Of a convertible democracy
Top down
And an economy drunk on greed
Bottoms up
Mean wile
The wrest of US
May just find
Ourselves losing it
Awe
That wee ever had
An economy re-nude
What we may
Be left with
Is flash mobs
To arouse a revolution
In the face of
Tops down
And bottoms up
Violence begets violence. May we go to that well, being, and learn to live in peace…
Be Getting
Trying
As won may
Drying
As won may
Where there is no well
Being
What might
Won expect
Be
Getting
Be
Getting
Violence
When awe is a bout
Getting