A Sad Case

Stream Of Thought

Stark night and emptiness

Of everything -

No memory or presence -

Odious, ridiculous -

Neither fish nor fowl

Nor a man nor bug -

The Leader of The Band! -

Followed by the humble

Wishing to be led -

No one needs a leader -

There's nowhere to go -

Camus was right -

Your life's completely pointless -

Paradigms, examples

That would help to solve a problem -

Waiting to be recognized

I didn't say “goodbye” -

Two lost souls

Both wanting to be noticed -

Neither says a word

So neither is -

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Picking Up

Twigs on a tree

When the leaves are gone -

An icy sea

In an early dawn -

No more the fluff

Of poetic thought

Making a mind

Seem what it's not -

How much is other

Than what it is?
Poems of language

Are best I wis.

When music was pleasant -

It isn't now -

And lyrics intelligent,

Not a cheap

Adolescent

Who thinks he's deep.

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Freedom

Who was it who sternly said

That I'm an avaricious Red

Who cares more for the money

Than the goodness of the heart

Of the crook who took it?

I am bankrupt once again,

Poor but I don't look it

Due to psychotherapy

And military horrors,

Though I never crossed the sea.

I mowed lawns and painted halls

To keep my country free.

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The Ridiculous Doctor

In a haughty voice she said

Most people think since he's a doctor,

He would know. I did not doubt

For a moment that she knew.

That's why I was there.

And puzzled by her attitude

I listened to her talk,

And disappeared completely.

I was barely 30,

Very very young.

I believed the doctor

And I listened to her talk.

In 10 months I was terrified

And totally insane.

I am 67 now.

My attitude has changed.

Doctors don't know anything.

Why was she credentialed?

You've got to tell the truth at once,

Or else you will be smothered.

The doctor she referred to was herself.

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Hopeless

So this is what is left of life -

To do as you are told,

Keep your mouth shut,

Never ask a question.

Too old for therapy (that farce!) -

And much too young to love.

If only someone felt the way

That bitch in Jersey talked

About my poems – no one ever will.

Shakespeare, Keats, Millay -

Would they sink breathless in the sewage

People feign to like?
More horrible – to think

They really like it!

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A Sad Case

The most that a psychologist

Can do is nothing wrong.

But salubrious or helpful?
That will never happen.

Yet he continues hauling in

The money like a preacher.

Television preachers

Make the biggest bucks of all.

People need with desperation.

The lonely and the crippled

And the sick. And bigots who

Want Jesus on their side.

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