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Tag: thoughts
22:17 (a poem)
I turned off the TV a few minutes after ten to go to sleep. A few minutes later, I looked at the clock… I have been lying here for hours watching the clock not move The longest twelve minutes of my life loop over and over the front’s rapid advance engulfing the usual nightmares that disrupt [...]
Ill-fitting disguise (a poem)
I just started watching this Japanese series, Fujiko, on Hulu. A couple of moments got me going on this… Somebody likened that thought to murder I always thought it was more like a case of mistaken identity or a disguise ill-fitting A railroad crossing signal ignored a foot caught between the rail and the pavement shoes [...]
Caffeine➝ insomnia (a poem)
I should not have had that last coffee yesterday… I put on the mask lay my head on the pillow and over the next twenty minutes my mind goes everywhere the library I went to with my mom when I was a kid…the elevator I rode a few weeks ago with someone I knew but [...]
Random thoughts, December 2016 (a poem)
Perhaps not literary excellence, but this is what I came up with today… 1 Everyone secretly cheered when Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis got together in Ghostbusters Harold Ramis wasn’t going to loosen up enough to get it on with Annie Potts Bill Murray and Zuul were never going to happen and Ernie Hudson got [...]
Poetry Marathon 2016, Hour Eight: My stupid obsessions
Eighth poem of the day. The prompt for the hour was to write a pantoum… I hate all the thoughts that keep me awake because my mind refuses to relax taking my body along for the ride long after I have closed my eyes Because my mind refuses to relax I toss and turn and worry [...]
How do we eliminate hate? A partial list
On one of my social media accounts, someone responded to a re-post of my poem "I have questions" by asking, "how do we eliminate hate?" My response: The emotion itself probably cannot be eliminated. Neither can the anger, jealousy, and insecurity that fuel it. After all, we are human, so we feel things. We can, [...]
On the lack of clean surfaces in any of the workspaces in my apartment (a poem)
Because the mess always reasserts itself eventually… This collage of thoughts, impulses, and indecision renderings on paper, in graphite and ink mountains of clippings in untidy piles My workspace of functional disarray: today a mess tomorrow a mark of genius with a cat asleep in the window (8 May 2016)
Lucy (A poem)
The mystery of Lucy, the alarm cat… I wish you had the ability to speak I’d love to know what’s on your mind If I could only have a little peek If I got that peek, what would I find? What would I learn for the first time? I’d love to know what’s on your [...]
Distractions on a Sunday morning (A poem)
Sunday morning… I have only vague memories of what I was just thinking about interrupted by the minor aches and pains that keep me up when I’m awake I don’t know if my muscles will stretch that far but it’s worth a shot Coffee stains on my table coffee stains in my book evidence of [...]
