Match Of The Day

Football chaos and hooligans
Banging the pubs and shebeens
Crescendos to a certain point
And we send in the Marines,
Handcuffs and billy-clubs
Force things to be still
Law enforcement: 1
Beer-bloody fans: nil...

Asleep At The Switch

The race was thought to be over
Pitch made, presentations done,
Tough competition, but seemed
Like we had finally won
All was good, all was fine,
Then panic when we realized
We hadn’t yet crossed the finish line...

Best Medicine

Booze is not the cure
For when one feels depressed,
A bacon double cheeseburger
Actually works the best...

Feels Like Defeat

Nameless, it comes up from the
Lungs to spread behind the eyes
A sort of soft suffocation
Whose effect is to paralyze...

Noborito, 5/28/2019

So unfair, a curse, that
She had to forfeit her life,
Waiting at a bus stop, and
Stabbed by a madman with a knife,
Fate, once again, revealed
To be so random and cruel,
A child killed, just for
Trying to get to school...

鳥居

Pause before the Torii
Which marks a borderline,
Gateway to an area
Believed to be divine...

Existential

That strange special moment
When you float, suspended,
Between what’s next,
And what just ended...

Uneasily, vaguely
Adrift, and aware,
Of now and then,
Here and there...

Morning In The City

Try hugging the pillow,
But can't sleep anymore,
Bird calls, sirens,
Traffic's distant roar...

Stabbed Meal

Starling in the weeds,
What does it seek?
The answer is the
Grub it pulls up with its beak...

Thanks To Amazon

Vines turning the
Colors of fall,
Entwined around
The doors of the
Dead shopping mall,
Its entrance welcoming
No one at all...

Pay No Heed

All the minutes hours days
Lined up in front of me
At least that’s what I
Assume things to be
Carefully ignoring
My mortality

A Few Cards Short...

Like a bad weird

Dream’s refrain

Stuck again with

An idiot on the train...

幸福の科学

The church of Happy Science
An exotic place to pray
But be sure to exit
Before they make you stay

Wasted Beauty

Fresh flowers,
Mainly colored white,
Wait in the smokey
Incense light,
To be cut,
And then burn
With the body
Going into the urn...

What Will Happen

Prophets will prognosticate,
But after that, we just
Have to sit back and wait...

Out Of The Blue

Out of a dream, a word
Appeared in my head,
It caused me to wake,
Roll out of my bed,
To look it up,
Because I forgot
If it was a real word,
Or not...

Shadow World

She looks up from
Fingering her phone,
It’s not the same place,
She’s all alone,
A voice whispers: “Welcome
To the Twilight Zone”...

Difference Of Elevation

Up in the tree,
The happy bird sings,
Down below, we
Try to make the best of things...

Retail Reality

Customer service counter
She pauses in place
A totally empty
Look on her face
Staring blankly
Off into space...

Solitary End

Stroke in the toilet
Away from her phone
She never had a chance
She died alone...

Imperial Succession

The ceremonies proceed
In a measured flow,
Each move and gesture
Conducted “just so”,
Ancient processes
Dignified and slow...