Alleys

Alleys are like people
some are wide
some are hard to find

People are like alleys
some smell like pee
some are grimy

Alleys are like alleys
many have rats
some rats are smashed

People are like people
many have cars
some cars they crash

Some wide people
smell like pee
crash cars
in grimy,
hard-to-find alleys

They smashed
that rat

Peter Pan (My Great-Niece's Pony)

once there was a crazy pony
the pony's name was Peter Pan
never grow up would this pony
all he did was ran and ran

"Grow Up Pony!" people shouted
"Bologna!" s'what he shouted back
never grow up will this pony
running around his pony track

time goes by but he's still running
now he's old and hairy
look up "pint-sized (crazy) horse"
he's in the dictionary

Retired

Leisure World
and Leisure Land
visit there
and you'll
be grand-
ma

Horse Thinking

when I die
my mind will fly
into the sky

when I take a look around
staring back toward the ground
I'll find a nice horse to become

lay in the field and itch my bum
get spooked by dogs, go on a run
eat fresh green grass, nap in the sun

do all the things that can be done
and when the day is over
and I've had my fill of clover

I will lift my tail
and leave a trail
of small and squishy boulders

Electro-Brain

Electro-brain education
makes your
retarded child
normal
your normal child
gad-zormal

Nucleo-conservation
makes your
dusty forest
radiate
your radiant forest
bio-adiant

Cryo-tron illumination
makes your
icy world
bright
your bright world
ignite

New Years 2006

National Airport
New Years Eve
A Sailor sits alone
Waiting for his 8am flight
Headed to Yokosuka
He stares at the tarmac

Before midnight his father calls
After midnight his girlfriend calls
After that he sleeps on the seats
Tomorrow he'll be in Japan
A resolution

National Airport
New Years Eve
Stands a man named Ray
under the escalator, by the pay phone
He's from D.C., he has a TV
plugged in under the pay phone

Before midnight he makes a call
After midnight he gets a call
He watches Times Square on TV
Tomorrow he'll be back
A revolution

National Airport
New Years Eve
I am looking around
I look in the seats
I look under the escalators
I ride up the escalators

Before midnight I get a call
After midnight I get a call
After that I take the train
Tomorrow is today
An evolution

Christmas Memory

A family of friends invited me to celebrate Christmas with them so that many of the memories I would have had with my own family I could still experience.

Dogs Me

my pen
dogs bone

my clothes
dogs collar

my words
dogs bark

my God
dogs me

Christmas Visitors

A

man

and his

friend (I know

them) came to town

to visit for Christmas

Eve

Busboys & Poets

Busboys & Poets

Please don't go there

I left with a feeling like
I stubbed my toe there

The service is slow there

A friend and I went

He bought me lunch

it had me feeling sorry for
the money he spent there

Busboys and Poets

We shouldn't have went

Photo Illustration

I went with a friend to meet a friend
We met for a drink and a gift was exchanged
My interests result in a book about war
Because my friends know of my interest of war
I open the book and what do I find
a picture of mine
a picture of mine
This is not the first time that my interests have scared me
And I sat and I sipped on the beer that was near me
I stared out the window my friends are right there
While they are still talking I sit there and stare
(With the sense of a scene of a suicide bomb)
(With the sense of a scene of a suicide bomb)