事務所

Passive-aggressive office mate,

Type-A supervisor,

Folks she loves to hate,

But she needs the job,

Resigned to her fate...

無の瞬間

Mental gears quietly disengage,

Lean against the kitchen sink,

Vacant mindless moments pass,

Invisibly, I later think,

Returning to reality from

Some sort of brink...

我慢

She handled the stress 

Stoically,

Some would say

Heroically...

At First Sight

Assumptions made

At first glance,

Are sometimes correct,

By chance,

Or revealed,

After not too long,

To have been

Incredibly wrong...

Morning After

Peace and quiet, convening

With my succulent plants,

Dissolving a hangover with

Bottled water from France...

Relativity

Feels like an ending, this

Time and place I'm in,

Finish up, yes, but when

Did it all begin,,,?

G&T

Cucumbers, tonic water,

Hendrick's gin,

Prepare and combine,

Let the games begin...

Hemlock

Quite profound and witty

What Socrates said,

But it did not prevent

His fate to be dead...

Reaction

So shocked, she had to

Laugh, rather than cry,

Which somehow felt right,

Although she couldn't say why...

Cup Of Noodles Break

Truck driver asleep, engine

Idling, side of the road,

Short rest before once more

Hauling the load...

Beginning Of End

Artificially intelligent

Telephones,

Scarily effective

Killer drones,

Technology spreading

Far and wide,

Nowhere

To hide...

Bottled Up

Outward appearance all

Orderly and mild,

But inside seethes

The call of the wild...

Invisible Hand (2)

Businessworld, a balance

Between shareholder need

And corporate greed...

Subordinate labor to

Profits and sales,

Orchestrate a buy out

If all else fails...

Corporeal

Perplexed over here, after

Being flummoxed over there,

All baggage that comes

Along with being self aware...

Morning Routine

"Nurse must be sixty years younger

Than me", and other random thoughts,

As he is assisted up from his wheelchair

To do his stretches and squats...

Wet Meal

Crow, walking on the ground,

In the rain, over there,

Hunting for the worms

Which come up for air...

あの世

Life after death is not a

Sentient heavenly revive,

Rather, it exists in the

Hearts of those still left alive,

One lives on in images

Which from memory derive...

Current Events

My good mood will

Dissipate, diffuse,

As soon as I watch

The morning news...

Autumn Savior

Cold northern air mass arrives,

Finally, no longer forced inside,

By the too-hot Sun, into air

Conditioned rooms to hide,

Soon caressed by the temperate

Breeze October will provide...

Tuesday Morning

Through the opened window

Flows the cool October air,

And the sounds of everyone

Waking up everywhere,

Move, walk, drive away

From the night no longer there...

Null

A kind of static, craving, 

Neutral empty mood,

Result of not being

Fed enough emotional food...

Boot Camp

Sitting on the toilet,

Nothing coming out,

Drill Instructors

Outside, lurking about,

Newly-shaved head,

Stress and fear,

Wondering how the heck

I ended up here...

マイペース

That comforting realization,

In the beginning of the end,

Around me the sweaty ones

Who compete and contend...

That when they warn

"You'll be left behind!"

I find, that I

Do not really mind...

Up Above

Crows and Seahawks,

Fly the cool sky,

Of the Equinox...

救急車

Early morning ambulance klaxons,

Taxi service for the near-dead,

Away from their lonely apartments

Carried to a distant hospital bed...