Old Apartment Dweller

Hot plate and 4.5 

Tatami's is all,

Communal toilet

Down the hall,

He waits for it,

Still and prone,

Numb, half-drunk,

And alone...

Mental States

Some, sleeplessly seek

What might be ahead,

Others, stay high,

In the moment, instead...

Yellow Gold

Trees preparing to slumber,

Colored yellow gold,

A short burst of beauty,

Before the coming cold...

Word Play

The sophist asked:

"Which is more real?"

"What you think,

Or what you feel?"

After a pause,

My reply,

Was a simple:

"Why?"...

Polylith

Stones come together

Standing this way

If they could talk

What would they say...

Pink

The ethereal

Power

Of a perfect

Flower

Gut Reaction

Finally, grudgingly,

Acknowledged the fact,

That he was a life-support

System for a digestive tract,

Constantly, unconsciously,

Driven by the need to eat,

Followed inexorably

By the order to excrete...

Gray Matter

Inside our brains,

Memory and 

Past remains,

Which a chemical stew

Somehow retains...

Storytellers

Politicians, preachers, activists,

All of them tense and declarative,

Vie for believers as they

Battle to shape the narrative...

立冬の花

Weed blooms yellow-gold,

Under a late-autumn sky,

Releasing a bit of beauty,

When the air is cool and dry...

Didn't Join Debate Club

Thinking about it afterwards,

Realizing what you could have said,

But you'd launched a

Lame response instead,

As usual, losing out to

Those of quicker wit,

Brains just wired differently,

You're forced to admit...

In My Car

Big old Buick

Bench seat,

Where dreams

And desires meet,

Breathless teenage

Hormone heat...

庭園

In a Japanese garden, capture,

Hold, a moment,

Queer quiet rapture...

Non Verbal

Unexpectedly,

Her reply,

Was just a

Shrug and sigh...

忘年会

Mid-November, the time

Is drawing near,

To gather, get drunk,

And forget this year...

Indigenous

After the land-hungry

Foreigners arrived,

Only the tough and

Clever survived,

Natives caught in

An implacable plight,

Most chose to endure,

Rather than fight...

Escape

From the daily rat-race,

Ease up a bit,

Look around carefully,

Then quietly quit...

San Francisco Tenderloin

Escape the hellish day,

Forget, float, pleasure-lift,

Then mercilessly crash,

Fentynol's deadly gift...

Pre-Extinction

Dinosaurs did not doubt their

Dominance, not even a bit,

Enjoying apex reptile life,

Until the comet hit...

Pre-Boarding

Head toward a distant

Destination, through the air,

Turn my body over to

Airline industry's care...