A Good Sense Of Humor

Spontaneous, loud, and bright

Is her laugh

At a joke on T.V.,

A happy and comforting sound,

Full of genuine glee,

And sometimes

She laughs at me...

Fundamentalist

The Pope may be Catholic,

And a bear may poop in the woods,

But the gifts of radical preachers

Are nothing but damaged goods,

Mendacious holy teachers

Spreading hate in their neighborhoods...

Examination Hell

Two A.M., walking in the dark

Are lonely drunken fools,

And tired kids leaving

Korean cram schools...

Hard-Earned Money

A welcome development

Sure to ease life's tension,

Comes this November

When I qualify for my pension.

Love And Bodily Functions

Into each other's arms they fell,

All lusty heat and passion,

Until a fart broke the spell...

A tale that love poems

Never tell...

Post Stroke

Newly ejected from in-patient care,

It's start time for therapy,

A contest against pain,

Gut-check hikes in the morning air,

Counting pace with a walking cane...

Tell myself it beats being in bed,

Each step a delay to the day I'm dead.

Saturday Thoughts With Head Pain

The headache seems worse

When I find the aspirin

Bottle is empty...

- - - - - - - - - -

I'm sure the folks next door

Must love their music,

Which vibrates through my floor...

They must think I could not

Stand the silence before,

So they unleash the bass

And the beat, so my place

Is not cold and empty anymore...

I must express my gratitude,

For their kind and caring attitude.

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Convenience store sandwich rack

After the lunch-time rush is done,

And all that's left is

Fried-noodles in a hot-dog bun...

No Fear Of The Blankness

I may not be the one to fight,

But I can conjure, I can write,

Scribble things that weren't there

Before I snagged the words out of the air,

And herd them onto the sheet

Of paper, where marks and meaning meet...