Paris Left Bank

Existential thought,
Considering freedom,
Or being, or not,
Came from cocktails
Flavored with apricot,
And their drinking
Led to the phenomenal
Way of thinking...

Terminal Hurt

Not that easy to explain
But my fear of death is less
Than my fear of pain...

Failed Maintenance

Despite my gardening efforts
The weeds are winning
I suspect they look at me
Laughing and grinning

Art Of The Deal

It’s not what you think,
But rather how you feel,
As you try to decide
Whether to make the deal,
Instead of the Why,
Just focus on the What,
Always watch the eyes,
And go with your gut...

Stacked Deck

Keep on trucking,
Carry on,
You have to play
The card you’ve drawn,
Either win or
Woebegone...

Actress

She figured it out
After a while,
How to pause,
Swallow the bile,
Hide the pain,
And just smile...

Target

Somewhere in the
Afghan combat zone,
The person of interest
Picked up the phone,
And cued a missile
Launched from a drone,
Which flew through the
Window, into the room,
And instantaneous
Eviscerating boom!

All Impending

New day, after
A fitful rest,
Time to
Get dressed,
Caffeinate,
And hope for the best...

引き篭もり

I don’t venture out
Into the village anymore
And my parents know better
Than to knock on the door
To my hiki-komori world:
Four walls, ceiling, and floor...

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...