Taking what life throws at me one pitch at a time
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Every time I bake
Every move I shake
Every step I make
Every walk I take
I'll be limping badly
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Some decades better
Some decades later
Every painful patter
Every other step matter
I'll be limping badly
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That's the walk I've walked
Forty five years now
Looking for the next place
To stream my consciousness
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I sat down to read
Then I forgot to get up
Kept turning the page
creepy orange radish
wants to turnip the grief on
non-elite parsnips
dementia leads us
waist deep in the big muddy
with unclear vision
Went to see a snow leopard
At the Lincoln Park Zoo
Instead I saw no leopard
However the zoo
Was filthy with wild life
i.e. children
Enormity is
Established after two steps
Off the bluff of time
the best thing about
haiku is it lets me be
briefly brief in brief
river mouth lined with
withered reeds as rising sea
levels force the brine
further up the river flow
changing the ecosystem
mental cough known as
a scoff will expectorate
airborne balderdash
Can you tell a story in 15 words using the following words in it somewhere:
EXERCISE
NEIGHBOUR
TROLL
I exercise my troll neighbour daily. He chases me across the bridge to a train.
When I close my eyes
I dream of weeks spent on small
seconds of screen time
where humans abide
the hill will endure us in
spite of our follies
on the precipice
of a gulch there was a #glitch
stopped us with a gulp
Social distancing
On Social Media brings
Quiet quietude
stand back and watch me
ruin seventeen syllables
tangle mangle coup
Penetration tool
A drill can build or destroy
Favorite weapon as
slasher film backup or for
environmental rapists
Senator Slug fell in line
To kiss the befouled ring
To follow the slimy trails
Left by lobbiest #Nudibranch
Money, power, social bling
Gold encrusted shells
Now hunker on the back bench
Like big ol' nasty snails
Chick Diakon played by
Bud Abbott when he and Lou
Met with Frankenstein
Words that land fallow
Often come from a callow
Self centered fellow
Fellowship
Don't need a quorum
Predation of predators
now make all the rules
takes lots of restraint
from all of us to start to
scale back the hate
it was none to bright
of me to stay all night
in bone chilling sleet
I saw no future.
Groomed to be up to my butt
in Nam rice paddies
1-H to 1-A
Random sequence number was
seventy six. Yikes
Lucky me. The draft
stopped a year hence thanks to those
that went before me
Memorial Day / Decoration Day for you Civil War Vets out there 02:48 PM
In early May of this year my father would have been 119. Passed away long ago in his late 70s. One of my favorite memories was when the Right Wing became NAZI curious ala Blues Brother's Movie era. Some of those knuckle heads set up a little podium in a park I was playing tennis in. My friends and I went over and mocked them mercilessly until they went away. Although they tried their typical intimidation cosplay, even the Chicago Police didn't have much use for these miscreants then. Eventually they went back to the rock they crawled out from under. I told my dad, a WWII vet, when I went home and all he said was, " I wish I knew. I'd have got my gun and shot them."
It's quite the travail
To hack through the wilderness
With all this baggage
Watch it develop
Snapshot taken of my soul
Shows where I have been
It's in the dosage
All things can become toxic
Even detoxing
Written June 7, 2024
Recalled for Memorial Day
Eighty years ago
yesterday, my father paid
a surprise visit
To Normandy's shores.
Took no selfies. Stayed awhile.
Came back. Told no tales.
things that dwell in me
are fine, things that lurk within
are what troubles me
Not joined at the hip.
Tickle my seclusion would
describe her visits.
It could be said that
Don, the ne'er-do-well narwhal
was long in the tooth
now to become a
fully imagined human
instance by using
scrolling data and shifting
curves the good old fashioned way
My very first toot:
In dog eat dog world
Feel the boneyard hounds snarling
Deep in your marrow
takes more than a skim
of the leaves off the surface
to make a pool clean
Poised on the cusp of
Bicuspid disaster I
Bite the jerky hard
Chased Sue around cause
Thought the memo said pursue
It was signed, Per Sue
things that I pursue
often start pursuing me
eventually
Dust in the wind is
like admiration on the
internet. Fleeting.
Big Bilious Bowel Movement Dumped on the Nation
such things cannot be
sufficiently despised is
the correct response
to corrupt actions taken
by despotic land grabbers
nineteen eighties greed
bonfire of the vanities
compared to today's
narcissistic avarice blaze
was a prescient flickering
Sealed maritime doom
For many wayward sailors
Elkie the Selkie
End morning mind defragmentation 08:34 AM
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