Friday, January 10, 2025

potential energy

there was that time in school two of us grown close and comfortable sharing dark beers dreams and visions while we studied and other things absurd

two bright and shining stars

invincible

doing good and righting wrongs

and mostly being seen

anonymous

caped and masked and costumed

long-johns emblazoned with a star

bright and shining of course


donned it once I did

beneath street clothes

for a downtown metro ride

to pick up Thai

a test of sorts 

empowered there and back

while others rode

and read or napped

drained and neutral and oblivious


no rights wronged

no goods done

unless you count the Thai delivered


still sparking with potential through the meal shared

until I found that pepper in the Thai

my first


made a scene I did

blazing

and despite my insulation under

after several pitchers drained

neutralised

and oh so obvious


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Friday, June 21, 2024

blind side

sitting at the dealership
likely for the day
their systems down
by cyber clown - or worse

the waiting room is nice
Keurig coffee
wi fi
comfy chairs

all eclipsed by quiet incessant discourse
Red or Blue

neither budge
each holds a grudge
based on what they KNOW
more like no

there's the rub
distracted by the chance to fight
over clouds and shadows 
ethereal and out of reach
ignoring
heat domes
wild fires
mud slides and the like

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Friday, January 27, 2023

okay

I am enveloped by a film
it's paper thin and brittle

the slightest poke will make it tear
and leak venom and spittle

the leakage gets on everything
it's caustic and it burns

and when I try to clean it up
it spreads at every turn

making all that's good and fair
a pestilential goo

unless I keep control of it
it just might get on you

and so I sit
perfectly still

to keep myself at bay
and ponder what's

inside this film
the one I call okay

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Thursday, August 18, 2022

anticipation

stone passes
wonder colors relief
lurkers at the wake

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022

context

a soup sandwich …
let that marinate

 

is not that bad

in fact it’s rather good

 

when served in a bowl
with a spoon

 

toasted please


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Monday, January 31, 2022

non sequitur

global pandemic
environmental collapse
inequality
certainly priorities
at which egos seem to balk

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slippery slope

a little nuance
allowing you to infer
your heart's desire

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