Einstein

Einstein

Oh no! Another member of

The Einstein Was Stupid League.

He needed help to get through school -

Another turn – his family

Did his homework. Einstein

Was lazy. Even though he was

Undoubtably a genius.

Einstein was brilliant although

Practically retarded.

9-16-13

 

Music

60 years – no 67 -

Never once felt contact

With any person but my mother,

And she liked to hit.

The free, fresh, open air of Keats -

Native health – unrepealed -

And the desert of Death Valley -

Reddish, sculptured Gothic cliffs -

Now I'll write what pleases me

Without the fear of censure.

Gods and Jesuses be damned!

The truth cannot be wrong.

9-16-13

Rambling

Gone or changed, I shall be free

To savor my autonomy

And write my truths in poetry,

However truthless – with the sea

Preparing to wash over me.

16 years that won't grow back

Were hardly altogether black.

Jesus washed my sins away.

What a stupid thing to say.

I look 70 today.

My pristine happiness restore,

And I shall go and sin no more.

9-16-13

Circle

A little clutch or coterie

Of people whom you trust

Who wouldn't hurt you anyway,

Not even if they must.

People who are more than just

A friendly Yankee smile,

A Christian gesture in a church

That aren't worth a pile.

Young there were the fellows who

Meant happiness to fuck with.

Older men make Syria

And cops seem like a myth.

9-16-13

 

Air Without A Stone

I am air without a stone

To stop the moving sea.

Like passing through the sunlight,
It passes over me.

Rivulets and puddles ring

My temples and my feet,

Never altogether there,

So never incomplete.

9-16-13

 

Lace

Black lace, woven with gold -

The fabric's in tact, but very old.

Yet the strings and delicate strands

Woven by four uncertain hands

Lie like fleece on the back of the chair

Where I've slept, and you were there.

You are gone, and farther away,

Obsidian will fade to grey.

The gold (for happiness and trust)

Will never disappear or rust.

9-16-13