Apparition

A fleeting glimpse
From the corner of my eye,
Where rules of reality
Don’t always apply,
Somebody, something
Seems to come near,
Sparking curiosity,
Or uneasiness, fear...
Then I Look! Only to
Have it disappear...

American Casual

Foot traffic at the Walmart store,
And as far as the eye can see,
Pushing carts full of junk food,
Clans of obese mediocrity...

Prophesy

A world gone mad
Ten years hence,
A result I cannot see,
But I can sense...

介護サポート

Wheeling grandma
Through the store,
Picking from consumer
Items galore,
Pushing her
This way and then that way,
Hope my kids will
Do it for me someday...

What's In A Name

An incredible, distant,
Unreachable cosmic display,
Which someone decided
To call a "Milky Way"...

When It Comes...

Writer's block, or
A blank slate,
Don't matter which,
I just will wait...

Crow Morning Buffet

Garbage breakfast time, and the
Dagger-beak crows stab,
Sensing the stinky juicy bits,
They tear, poke, and grab.
And not very long
After they start,
Raw garbage strewn about,
Bags ripped apart...

Muzak

A beautiful tune, brilliantly performed,
Note after note, chord after chord,
Plays on the elevator speakers,
Enchanting, but largely ignored...

Vehicular Chance

Lesson of the
Traffic light,
Stale yellow
Maybe all right,
Fresh red
Driver likely dead...

The Bugs Of Summer

In answer to some
Kind of chemical urge,
Up from the mulch
The insects surge,
Into the plant stems
And leaves they cling,
When the sun goes
Down, they start to sing...

Mixed Nuts

His sentiment,
That irony
Is a supplement,

Not only that,
But seriously thinks
The Earth is flat,

But before you gloat,
Or chuckle, remember,
He has the right to vote...

Instigation

The sad thing is that
When activists collide,
They start to insist you
Must take a side,
Don't ride the fence
And avoid the fight,
And naturally, their
Side is always right...

西洋ネズの果実

Forced by circumstance
To pause, and think,
Quickly conclude that
I need a strong drink,
A short time thereafter,
Some Juniper gins
Wake up my neurons,
Analysis begins...

Sugar Therapy

When stressed-out, overwhelmed,
Your optimism hurt,
Give yourself a break
And have some dessert...

Routine

Take comfort from continuum,
And what repeats,
Sunrises, sunsets,
And regular heart beats...

Plus-Sized

Lazy-lost and
Overweight, addicted,
Failure was totally
Self-inflicted...

Sunday Bargaining

On the seventh day,
The congregation
Gathers to deal with God,
Prayers a negotiation,
Requests for miracles
And special favor,
To be granted
By the holy savior...

ラブホテル

Hotel Sunset lighting up
With pastel neon power,
Pink glow in the gloaming,
Rents its rooms by the hour...

梅雨入り

Water pouring from the sky
Soaks, floods, corrades,
The slick humid green
Land of the gods...

Small Town Null

Bored out of our minds
At the Dairy Queen
Wanna be twenty one
But stuck at sixteen
Waiting for what
The day might bring
To end our coma
Something, anything

Auto Repeat

Late afternoon
Early to bed
Same song playing
Over and over in my head

Wasted Moments

Time sometimes seems
To twist and enlarge
While stuck waiting
To recharge...

Darwinian

An election
Is a form of
Natural selection...

Politicians, regardless
Of fame, or distinction,
Always facing
Potential extinction...

夏至 2020

Accumulate pedometer steps,
Trudging from there, to here,
Aimlessly, knowingly, on the
Longest day of the year...

RIP, Calvin Munerlyn

Essential employee, doing his
Job, a thankless task,
Shot to death for telling
Someone to wear a mask...