A Kiss

Just Sitting Down In Denny's


If the music moves you?
Yeah.  Across the street.
And that two legged splendor
Screaming in the night.


Nothing but some drums
With a heavy bass.
Probably guitars.
Racket with a beat.


3-19-14

A Kiss


Either I'm loved or I'm not.
Pretending I don't care which.
On a bridge across a divide,
Looking down in a deep ravine.


Love's only happiness sure.
I'm inarticulate always.
It scuttled my time with the shrinks.
What can't I say?  I don't know.


Holding improbable hands.
Friendship as sweet as a kiss.
Though I never got a sensation
From kissing.  The touching of lips.


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Sitting In Denny's


I'm back on shore.
The Schiffs are gone
Deep in the waters
They walked upon.


My mind is calm.
And I can see
Everything
That's up to me.


The muddled rage that clogged my mind
Is disappeared.  And I'm inclined
To touch the diamond refined,
And see myself as god designed.


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Status Quo


Very little changes -
The set, the scene, the props.
Thought different the same
Many years ago.


On the mental ward
In county hospitals,
I found the cafeteria
And sat there smoking cigarettes
And staring at the walls.


Now I sit in Denny's.
I no longer smoke.
Instead I doodle poesy
And look into the distance.


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Feelings


The animal's behavior
Is inexplicable
If you do not recognize emotions.


The nasty doctors sneer
But they don't explain,
Undermining heaven with new hell.


Paradise and punishment -
Something from the Greek -
Charon steering cross the river Styx.


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