Happiness

An Action Movie

A lot of sweaty people dodging

In and out of trains

Shooting at each other

To tense musical refrains -

The writer, the director,

And the actors all at pains

To entertain the masses,

And they haven't any brains.

5-24-14

 

Your Neighbor

You can get some money. Only ask.

Americans are mad to think they're good.

Then in unemployment you can bask,

And love your neighbor as your neighbor would.

Importance

The day began auspiciously -

A couple jokes with Tina -

Lots of coffee – nothing that's

Significant, important,

Nothing much that matters,

Like a song by Larry Hart.

And that is all that matters.

5-25-14

 

Hart & Hammerstein

Hammerstein wrote it

And everyone likes it,

Even a rapper who jives.

Larry Hart

Is forgotten by all

But the tipplers in Manhattan dives.

Where is the justice?

Where is the truth?
God killed Larry Hart and his songs -

Clever, intelligent

Happiness, youth -

One of god's infinite wrongs.

5-25-14

 

GWL

There's not a thing on earth we like

Together but each other.

And I'm not altogether sure of you.

Do you like me (16 years)?
You're angry when I ask that.

I don't like your friends, your music,

Habits or your god.

Your habits I've adjusted to -

Comme il faut – I have to.

Your friends I'd like to see in jail.

Your music makes me scream.

Your god – but that's much better left

Unspoken. You I love.

And when you speak,

The rest is unimportant.

5-25-14

 

Happiness

Death makes all things unimportant,

And the pains of age.

Larry Hart was ugly looking,

Oh but what a mind -

Someone to be happy with -

That you seldom find.

Most people are afraid to be

Happy. I'm inclined

To cease to write important poems

Or meaningful. Except

Poems that are serious,

Not consciously designed.

5-25-14