Life is tough, very tough,
But so, darling, are you

Richard Rodriguez Escritor
Brown to see me through

Waitin' on the Ghost of Tom Joad
Bobby Ramirez too

Down and Delirious in the Aztec capital
Quetzalcoatl y tu?

Cortez Cortez - What a Killer
Dave Matthews flips ships Montezu!

I keep writing because I ...
Rainy grey today
More family feuds
More hate than love

America began in genocide
Slave labor all around
For basketball gratitude
Thank you, Andy Dove

Might rewatch The Batman
Blade Runner 2049
First saw it in Bangkok
Renu Rodthongkam

Silent old monk
Women in Tai Chi
Motorcycle taxis
Nitnoy som tam

            Chan Um

cheap hotel, internal pain
    dawn again, grey day rain
                Als Ick Kan!

......... Fr. Greeley .........
yellow dog Democrat
             Chicago

I don't really know what the Baroque is
Yo soy un Americano
But I've written about 20000 little poems
In the last 7 years or so
Which is certainly excessive

Drawn to Magic? Si!
Espanyol? Si tambien.
Portugal? Never been
Mexico City? Yo espero.

              When?

It's the silence that keeps on drawing me
The silence and the deer

Trappist Abbey in Oregon
Bangkok temple far from here

The beach, but not in summer
Grey skies, misty rain

Unexpectable, she said
The Buddha's female train

         open window pane

prayers for help
that never came

nevertheless
the prayers remain

love is like
a linking chain

the silences
connect the pain

I lay awake
and speak their names

my beloved ones
and Notre Dame.

Lost and lonesome ennui
Hey nonny nonny

At least i have the phone
To prove i'm not alone

Women i knew too few
Really only two

Solitude is 1
3 sons sung.

Begun.

rain into the night
ice into the pane

reading books is why
Don Quixote became insane

all these ideas and words
bumpin' in my brain

but i miss my boys tonight
and i ride the downbound train

He said the Nameless is the mystery
I agree.
So do the Taoists
Glad to see New York

Man of La Mancha
Mario Cuomo
George Hunt SJ
Thai fried rice - no pork

EmmyLou Harris
Saw her at Wolf Trap
Mr. Keating
Mork

Chapel of the Cross
UNC
Jay and me
Charmed quark

               Pettigrew Hall

Talk of Dune at Easter
The Mahdi on my mind
I lick her in her ear
I lick her from behind

2037
Farewell and be kind
Bert be home Blyleven
I wanna travel blind

Judith and Susanna
Hamnet, number three
My Quest it is Qualyxian
Knoxville, Tennessee

Smoky Mountain Rain
We walk the beach in Nice
Skynyrd's Simple Man
Sting and the Police

             Samos, Greece

I do not like Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Fake and fraud and phony
Do eat tuna salad
Do not eat baloney

Would like to see Milwaukee
Once drank Killian's Red
Jesus was a Sailor
Leonard Cohen led

Dante and Milton
Forever out of reach
University of Chicago
Sullivan's Island beach

         Nothing to teach.

yes, I fear to disappear
feared it since my younger years
   O courage! - hold my dear loves dear ...


                          las protecciones!

Rickey Henderson on third base
Takes a little lead

I have feared death for so long
In the end do you think I'll bleed?

Rickey takes a few small steps
In this world I ramble and roam

Slow throw back to the mound
Rickey stealing home:

                    Safe!

I'm fragile
But I wish I wasn't
My mind breaks down too easily
Panic. Panic.
Can't get no relief

Saw Angkor Wat
And my brother Scott
Snow in Seattle
Ferry boats
Alone

                  Thrown.

this day the sun returns
do I even have a past?

it all just fades and fades
Si Shakyamuni - Nothing lasts!

but her remembered beauty
like the wind within my mast

Highway 375
and then the die is cast

unusual events happening to us
    some dismiss - What’s the fuss?
           I am puzzled, try to trust
                   unus mundus?

Not a saint. Not a hero.
I like Stanley. I like Zero.

Would like to be a Warrior Poet
But a bit of a joke, doncha know it

Not now working, at least not for money
Will Ferrell: very funny.

Once a teacher, tried to do my best
Now just a dad. Need for rest.

Once in love with a curious smile
She said goodbye. I cried awhile.

Europe. Asia. Israel too.
Ever ancient, Ever new.

               Eyes Green.
                Soul blue.

Thomas in the Matrix
The time comes to return
No need for *******
My soul within me burns

One pill makes you larger
One pill makes you small
One train from lost in London
My sons in Wetheral

One quest that still continues
I do not give up
Trappist 1, Midnight Sun
I miss that Quayzar pup

            Yo dawg, what's up?

the open American ocean
    falling, rising, falling, stalling...


                            Nantucket bound.

A few months in Ireland
    Dublin bus with you
                   Q

maternity returns, I see
     but how? and why? and where
                                            could she be?

      alien poem, cosmic sea

                                             quaternities?

we are all so badly broken
even the rich and healthy and famous

i like Cornel West
as he speaks the Book of Amos

he's from Sacramento
where I lived as a child

today olives with pimento
alas, Trump's mob with racehate riled

the future looks frightening
but maybe Emerald Isled?

mathematics and mental illness
    the quiet, the questing, the thrillness
                      her anger and her shrillness ...

                                     37.

Yes, I like to travel
And venture forth at dawn

Would that it were true
A road that goes ever on!

Tolkien still delights
So lovely, the Oxford of the dons

I stop and wai and wonder
whenever I see a fawn

Do you think Kylo can still be saved
Now that he's killed his father, Han?

Thomas More and Erasmus
Utopia. In Praise of Folly.
Get your adverbs here
Hey lolly lolly

Leonard Cohen saw the Future
Maybe I did too
Charlotte and Bob in Tokyo
In Kyoto one not two

I like miso soup
I like chana masala
I pray to Mother Mary
Mohammed prays to Allah

Oh those minarets!
I teach Islam in Taipei
I imagine Istanbul
Still I say xie xie

          Water Way

gratitude a practice
to counter that the fact is

life is catastrophic
and our minuscule biopic

is quickly soon forgotten
the virtues and the rotten

to oblivion returns
and yet my soul within me burns

tonight I’m grateful for the ocean
and for my sons - devotion

in darkness sets the sun
and now our day is done

She never meant to cause me sorrow
Neither did my dad

It wasn't at all intentional
Best times I ever had

Were times of fun and laughter
Kissing at the beach

Basketball with friends
Now it's out of reach

But still some destiny
Some good thing left to do

Whatever is left to be
O God! See us through

   Comin' home to You!

I'm 1230
Not 1600
So there will be things
I do not understand

Greetings and Salutations
Hopes and fears
Laughter and tears
And a rockin' band

Please trust
Patientia
Courage
Footprints in the sand

                        And ...

I cannot endure to read a line of poetry; I have tried lately to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull it nauseated me.

Says Darwin's Autobiography

no one important
thankfully
try to be patient
patiently

           we

Will Ferrell as George W.
Saturday Night Live.

😄

Like Thomas Merton I have been to Bangkok
Even Samutprakan
Silent in Gethsemani
Temple of the Dawn

On my second date
Heard Thich Nhat Hanh
Wrote to Daniel Berrigan
Seattle for the fawn

Bangkok is quite bustling
Tuk tuks in the rain
Motorcycle taxis
I fear American fame

Passed the ball to Alex
In New York I will attack
George W. paints in Texas
******* destroyed Iraq

           But I fight back.

The Batman, not Vengeance
He lights the glowing flare
Leads the people out
Highwater Everywhere

Martinez explains the Tucker
Gordon remains true
A flicker of hope in Gotham
Bella Real in view

New pizza place in my town
Think I'm gonna try it
Tomatoes, onions, pineapple
Souped up 72

Learning as I go
Forward looking steps
Soon Wizards vs. Bucks
The Greek Freak scores a few

                       GMU!

the temple courtesan
from ancient pagan Greece

expressed the timeless truth
about the need to find release

I don’t know much, she said,
about wise philosophers and poets

but they see me as much as anyone else
and everybody knows it.

It may well be male
Women seem more happy

The sleep feels so good
In dreams my mind does hum

If Europa Report prevails
And there is discovery

Watch the psychonauts
See how they run

                Taipei 101

crossing the Baltic
     young sons sung  
             exoplanets!

Women are the mystery
Such beauty! so much pain

And me, lost in confusion
Found La Mancha, Spain

I'm obsessed with exoplanets
One said diamond rain

She said it's all over
I rode the downbound train

                    Once again.

Wetheral in eerie fog
    River Eden running
          identity they wish to see ...

               for me - genuine mystery.

He could not make things possible
But she could make them holy

She’s the One I seek
Lonely, slowly, souly

I've known long years of sickness
So I'm grateful for hours of health
Can I get witness?
David Markson on my shelf

Peace at times does come
But then the dread abyss
Peace be with you, darling
To love is much to miss

           Lunch together
            Ordinary bliss

San Antonio riverwalk
Solitary sound

Tony Tony stick around
The nation is lost and can't be found

nightdrive to Wilmington beach
                 breaking with the white waves
                                  morning light

Not in good health
My pill box is open
Sleep late and long
Lonely silent nights

Thank you. Thank you, Dad.
Slowly guacamole
My place is clean again
Gatsby's green light

                 Flight...