tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103775212024-03-14T03:28:22.051-07:00michaelwritesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4697125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-4154496701369602992024-02-17T08:41:00.000-08:002024-02-17T08:41:03.533-08:00What's Left<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">everything is resolved<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">then what<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">what's left to think about<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">or do<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">I'm happy<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">satisfied<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">worried about the world<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">but nothing I can do about that<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">except vote<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">which is not much<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">personally I'm done<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">reading the last books I can see<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">with waves of pleasure<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">loving my family and friends<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">gladly sharing our luck<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">while we can<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">one tiny infinite life<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">cosmic multiplicity</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-23468767491246726752024-01-06T17:16:00.000-08:002024-01-06T17:16:53.250-08:00New Idea<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">I want to be sincere<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">without being sappy<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">is that too much to ask<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">save the irony for later<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">or bid it fond goodbye<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">say what I say clearly<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">ambiguity is OK but<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">obscurity just lazy<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">trouble to speak truth<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">that's the new idea<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">a reason to revise</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-28501308771209730912024-01-05T22:04:00.000-08:002024-01-05T22:04:30.630-08:00Wild Things<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">now is this multiple moment<br /></span>the singular of me writing<br />the many of you reading<br />mine and yours noticed<br />inhabited with being alive<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>we meet in meaning what<br />we put out and take in<br />smooth and jarring words<br />bouncing off each other<br />with or without intention<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>everything is interesting<br />if you are willing it let it<br />take you someplace new<br />where wild things are<br />waiting to eat you alive</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-59566351282620561192023-12-24T17:11:00.000-08:002023-12-24T17:21:07.854-08:00Bad News<div> <span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">where did we go wrong<br /></span>it's not just me<br />the sense of decline is general<br />the young keep on<br />trying to ignore it<br />but a dire tone dominates<br />the news stays bad<br />the threats are real<br />and in our face<br />these are cataclysmic times<br />and getting worse<br />not better like athletes and musicians<br />who practice harder than ever<br />training to be perfect and to win</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">while they can<br />knowing it's almost too late</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-30581519262423061642023-12-22T17:25:00.000-08:002023-12-22T17:26:51.987-08:00Solstice Fire<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">is reading and writing all there is<br /></span>or only all I have to do, how else<br />let life flow through me as it must<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>that's the situation now, at least<br />after the winter chores are done<br />gifts and celebrations ordered<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>is this the letter I want to write<br />to my widely scattered friends<br />each treasured as unique with<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>private sharings and themes<br />we like to talk about, I wished<br />you here to see my solstice fire<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>burning merrily in the twilight<br />fog, the dimming world illusion<br />while the bright flames danced</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-85265478120569315692023-12-13T15:50:00.000-08:002023-12-24T17:18:31.673-08:00Unfinished Business<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">have I done the "necessary work<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">of mourning"? we never noticed<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">death, people simply stopped<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">appearing, transitioning to<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">dead at a respectful distance<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">occasionally a dead person might<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">appear for a day or two, never stop<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">popping up in dreams, alive again<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">their new death worse than before<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">maybe I mourned, but we rarely<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">talked about how it happened<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">as if everyone knew and was<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">embarrassed, it's embarrassing<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">to die or pay undue attention<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">the scattered few became a<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">multitude, and I didn't have <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">time to stop and think about<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">each one, claims of the living<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">seizing and holding the stage<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">unfinished business piles up<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I throw up my hands and<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">reverently let them slip away<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">if that's the work I've done it<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-62843293950681036892023-12-08T16:36:00.000-08:002023-12-14T20:35:40.869-08:00More of the Same<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">this is the sort of thing I say<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">over and over because I do, I<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">have to say something, it's my way<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I always want to be clear, commas<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">help so why not use them, purity<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">doesn't matter once you've been abroad<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">it's almost dark already, time for<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">something else or more of the same<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">without apology, with hope for harmony<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I try to like myself and hope you like me<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">too, try together to be honorably human<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">unconditionally qualified for heaven<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-27584683921963095282023-12-04T16:14:00.000-08:002023-12-04T17:35:56.904-08:00First Step<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I want each reader to read each poem and think, "What does that mean? What was he thinking?" and go back and read it again, looking closely at its parts, and see what it make them think. Reading it aloud to people is pointless. Hearing its music is only the first step.</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-69265046999085167862023-12-03T16:07:00.000-08:002023-12-04T17:47:14.630-08:00New Ideas<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">it's only four and it's getting dark<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">where's my afternoon, in fact it's<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">early, I still can do anything I like<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I plan another book of poems<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">2015 a very good year, why stop<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">now, I can still see well enough<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">even darker days ahead, but they<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">will pass, the sun return bringing<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">leaves flowers eggs and new ideas</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-9392758434945878412023-11-27T16:30:00.000-08:002023-11-27T17:41:45.940-08:00I Say<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I say to myself Michael<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">you're just incredibly brilliant<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">pouring out these poems<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">packed with ideas and images<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">how can you think all that<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and dare to say it</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-69378178282575764972023-11-02T15:25:00.001-07:002023-11-02T17:25:06.095-07:00Stop Pretending<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm in a hole<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">or I am a hole<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">formerly here<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">vaguely active<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">now I have to<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">lie down stop<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">pretending<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I still exist</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-5050909697408686672023-09-24T16:51:00.000-07:002023-09-24T16:51:05.470-07:00Passing Time<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">rectangles in receding planes<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">some at angles<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">light from different windows<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">weather-shaped<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">colors paling in the damp dusk<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">a distant rumble<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">or is that his blood<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">or passing time<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">he wants to keep it simple<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">though it never is<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">comfortable in his chair<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and body<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">savoring the day</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-59786998034530415602023-06-06T15:51:00.001-07:002023-06-07T16:42:12.098-07:00Wild Horses<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">where did we go so wrong<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">God is the whole not each one<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">individually trying to outsmart<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> others and the actual situation<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">analytic strategies bite back<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">nothing wants to be atomized<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">inoperable in separated parts<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">requiring to be reassembled<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">that's some of it anyway think<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">before you identify with one<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">self eating its way through<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">others ganging up to fight<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">evil maniacs stimulate the urge<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and feast on causing misery<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">as if life itself weren't hard<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">without imposing more pain<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">that's no excuse either I<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">can only blame philosophy<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">wrong thinking shakes the<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">reins we the wild horses</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-73948953502549435072023-06-02T16:08:00.001-07:002023-06-02T18:20:37.037-07:00Getting On<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">if I were myself<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">who would I be<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">clean white socks<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">positive outlook<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">after everything<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">still getting on</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-45032385496542075472023-05-18T16:58:00.001-07:002023-05-18T22:12:09.569-07:00Other Animals<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">the rat came around the corner<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">saw me spun and fled its claws<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">chittering on the walk this is who<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">has been opening up the eggs<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">something bigger is under the<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">house viciously screaming in the<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">night one skunk trapped probable<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">raccoons probably raising young<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">we are their enemies they will<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">die and others come right after<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">to populate the leftover spaces<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">never intended to be occupied<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and prey on our animals poach<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">our produce deny our title to<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">the land and right to evict or even<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">kill them for trying to go on</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-45780061971476704822023-02-01T17:49:00.001-08:002023-02-01T17:49:38.974-08:00Molten Words<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">what what what am I to do<br /></span>how am I to live these precious years<br />this precious day fading my body<br />weakened and failing in parts<br />cast the moment in molten words<br />transparent to the universal rays<br />open like the door to heaven</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-53281577165159838812022-11-23T15:06:00.001-08:002022-11-25T23:42:51.690-08:00Life Itself<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">politics is not more serious than life<br /></span>itself a world of many states of mind<br />and body like a river tirelessly seeking<br />death in the restless ocean of eternity</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-52195148633111662052022-10-27T15:39:00.001-07:002022-10-27T16:47:08.572-07:00Each Moment<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">what am I trying to say<br /></span>that this is life<br />in all its preposterous complexity<br />simply getting along<br />that this is me<br />in the real world<br />each moment a poem</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-28000511627214236982022-10-01T15:00:00.001-07:002023-02-20T14:48:04.592-08:00No Plan<div> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">the tendency to symmetry<br /></span>remains a mystery even<br />broken as it always is<br />not what you do but<br />who you are doing it<br />according to no plan<br />revealed nothing<br /><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px;">known to be true</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-36583632540615298082022-09-28T19:52:00.002-07:002022-10-01T20:07:18.928-07:00Staying Home<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">the places I want to go are closed<br /></span>the people I want to see are dead<br />what's the point of old New York<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>museums rich in art already seen<br />concerts of music I used to love<br />no more hankering for the new <br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>city me carries on in dreams<br />livelier than memory's reprise<br />staying home the now preferred</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-80265804813978699942022-09-22T15:55:00.004-07:002022-10-01T19:45:20.417-07:00Loving Look<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">alas his eyes are long unseen<br /></span>their loving look complex<br />challenging my existence<br />wryly accepting wanting me<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>and in the dream I am writing<br />trying to please women who<br />have their own idea of now<br />more style than I can equal<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>I do my best always sincere<br />despite a fondness for irony<br />wake with unbearable feeling<br />loss and desire intermingled</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-43126560798369869242022-09-16T15:36:00.003-07:002022-10-01T19:40:13.916-07:00Too Close<div><span style="font-size: large;">to Lora</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I could have spoken<br /></span>up but you chose not<br />to reveal more than<br />the public story so<br />I'll never know you<br />really don't want to</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-72883860612012642482022-09-06T15:55:00.004-07:002022-09-06T15:58:28.770-07:00 Beyond Words<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">stop naming composing every moment<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">as words as if everything distinct and<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">present when referred to as if anyone<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">ever quite gets what I mean that's not it<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">that's the words running away with it<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">like another sense another mode of<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">being in the world words overriding<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">actual living noise bright light bodily<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">smells and innumerable sensations<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">turn it off if you can already enough<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">said to yourself if you can remember<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">their names anything will do someone<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">loves you will know what you mean</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com062354MQR+39-8.8623503 -176.309125-37.172584136178841 148.534625 19.447883536178846 -141.152875tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-62445395198198014422022-09-06T12:13:00.004-07:002022-09-06T12:49:25.459-07:00On the Fly<div><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">can I sit and think usually<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">I am doing something else<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">and something bubbles up<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">and I start writing and see<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">where it goes thinking on<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">the fly not stopping to ask<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">if it's the right thing or what<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">I want to be doing getting<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">lost in imaginary construct<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">and these days I can barely<span class="apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">see the keyboard so it isn't<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">as easy to rattle on I do it<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">anyway how am I to learn<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif;">to think without writing</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10377521.post-63677838527463136292022-08-28T22:20:00.001-07:002022-08-28T22:22:26.208-07:00On Doing Nothing<div> <span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I can't read or write all the<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">time my eyes give out<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">closing them fall into reverie<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">going over random wording<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">might be letters or smething<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I'd like to say to someone<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">now that I have nothing to do<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I need to practice doing nothing</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0