Taking what life throws at me one pitch at a time
If it is yellow
When it comes to early frost
Don't ever eat it
Stretched out between two trees in a park, I lie supine in my multi colored net hammock. Gentle breeze and swaying motion, in the torrent of historic buffoonery. Fear, greed, and graft all playing out in plain sight. I've made my #matrix into my bed so I must lie in it too.
With one single look
I saw the coming rapture
We would soon capture
Glaring scarcity
Of cognitive clarity
Pains the world to see
snug in his own group
it might be said that crow got
lost in his murder
from the top on down
or from the bottom on up
stir it real good
gleefully passing
The Grip to those who haven't
gained immunity
Whispers in my ear
Passing butterfly advice
Don't float, bee the sting
when in the grip of
an existential crisis
best to just exist
memories flood the zone
while I try to convince myself
I've immunity from the past
another day another koan
take haiku down from the shelf
tasty tanka breaks the fast
a shot of poetry gets me through
immune until the next days brew
curl, potion, robin, unicycle, and bombast.
With reckless bombast, Robin rides a motorized unicycle. Crashing into a bowl to join a birdie bathing bacchanal, which Robin hadn’t been invited to. A party where illicit potions were being served that would curl their little dirty birdy feet.
Either I know to many words, or Wordle just accepts to many of my shot in the dark word guesses as real words
Our reacquaintance
Stirred a hiraeth of my youth
Played together then
Reunited played again
In a very different way
Malicious glee felt
Ripped off Do Not Remove tags
Then I learned I could
no straight lines for me
like nature I want thick haze
on my cushy wave
Montrose trolley bus
Before the sun rises up
Fish off the jetty
Not any jetty
This was the Montrose horseshoe
Near the Nike base
Caught so many perch
Also some hefty salmon
But most times caught zip
snarky rude robin
chirped rejoinders about my
fishing earthworm
Taken from where the missile base once was but is now a bird sanctuary🐦⬛
Montrose trolley bus
Before the sun rises up
Fish off the jetty
Not any jetty
This was the Montrose horseshoe
Near the Nike base
Caught so many perch
Also some hefty salmon
But most times caught zip
evening news was a
soporific until it
became a non stop
death rattle of sanity
with fat man public farting
the first thing you need
is a propeller so you
can propel yourself
old timers swore that
The Patio theater was
pronounced The Pay Show
Laugh out loud as I
whet my rapier wit on
reality's edge
Arms hugging embrace
Nails rake trails across my back
Fait accompli flirt
With change
There is no magic dissolve
It's just one thing fading out
As another thing fades up
Simultaneously
Rather than consecutively
Something
Takes another's place
Becomes the thing
Less abrupt as cut
More contemplative than a wipe
brown sugar essence
viscous maple surple time
supple oatmeal bowl
The difference between
winners and losers. Winners
know how to palm cards
Or is it just the luck of the draw
The difference between
winners and losers. Winners
know how to palm cards
Together we burned
Shimmer through the night til dawn
Embers glowed til noon
Growth fetish eclipse
Humble basic human need
Bassakward values
Doned my eclipse robe
Fastened my woodpecker mask
Made the woods shimmer
mask of a stoic
worn by Gaia while watching
her children struggling
Feel a finger
Trace the seam of existence
Savor the recede
I've tried to avoid
Getting or giving a scar
Failed on the twain
playing in the yard
a row of peony bushes
bees buzzing the buds
Don't burden my tender estate with this knowledge
Phrazez that Payzez
"I'm a two legged animal sweating in my dead mother's bed" The Antidote by Karen Russell
it's all well and good
to arrive, but I'm more of
a journey person
One of my favorite memories is helping my father clean out the cesspool which was located next to the peony bushes.
A Scroll Threw Life 