Yesterday I could play with toys, Today I saw two dead boys Torn apart, Like my teddy bear, And his broken heart. Yesterday I could play with my friends outside, Never thinking, what if, I had to struggle to survive. Last night I slept on a cold floor in an …
By the shore’s edge where I come crashing, The sands shift to my ebb and flow, I rise and swell, Roll, curl and break, Slipping back, back under the undertow. My brokenness percolates the sand, Water through a sieve, Tapping fingers of the ocean’s hand, It’s a tidal life I …
Foggy morning dew weighs heavy On regimental rows of blood-stained grass, So many fallen blades sacrificed Under shoes of violent acts. Guns giving violence a voice That need not shout so loud, Less guns less deadly choices, Yet, Bullets keep shattering villages, Indiscriminately mowing down the crowd. Bloody footprints walk …
Every morning on my bike ride in the park, I see what must be hundreds of earthworms on the road. Most didn’t survive, having ventured forth from the moist soil and wet grass, down the curb to the human-made road of no return, so close and yet so far from …
This is a pet peeve (the pun I assure is by chance)People who let their dog run free andforthwith I most strongly (and carefully) take my stanceYou see the dogs must follow some canine communal pactTo poop on other people’s property I can indubitably, verify this as fact While unasked …
Tark shankSkank shrankTrank shackLark prankAphasic isolation tankLeft brain straight jacket safe deposit bankIf I ever can’t speak other thanNonsense undecipherable memesLead me gently out to green pasturesPut me kindly out of my misery please
I used to be much thinnerbut the steroids made me fatI am the fat lady with throat cancer, much yarn,Osteoporosis and a cat Seems the chemo and radiationDid away with my osteophytesNow my holy bones are like swiss cheeseThat cracks if left out overnight If I weren’t fat I could …
