In The Waiting Room

In The Waiting Room

I cannot imagine being

Friends with anyone

Other than the person

I am friends with.

And now the clouds are separating.

I can see the sun.

Night will soon be here.

It will be cooler.

Insanity, like love,

Is for the young.

4-30-14

 

Sketch

Another noisy night in Denny's -

Peter Pan in black -

Animated -

Jesus! What's she on?

George is gone – his

Father's funeral – Utah -

Back tomorrow -

Give me him for her -

It's not that easy -

Sick and nauseated – took

A pill for pain – a new one -

Every day my life turns

More oblique -

Obsequies and getting sicker -

Denny's slowly calms -

Peter Pan just asked me how I'm doing -

I just grunted -

5-2-14

 

Quitting

As my verse improves,

I want to quit it.

I read a recent book and

Really liked it -

Passive, calm and subtle,

But alive -

Fifty years and

Finally I found it -

Release it – let it

Back into the water,

After having hurt it

With a hook -

The same except

The 60s didn't feel -

Childish – but

A crystal without velvet -

Just a little,

Pictures from the 60s

Were nice to think -

But phrases without import -

Now I think

I'm on a new plateau -

Without the motive

To go higher still -

But if I cease to write,

I'll go away -

5-2-14

The Dream Master

When dreams become extensions of reality

Until my dreams are real as the earth,

I dream I reach my hand and wake up reaching,

My equilibrium will totter

Til I am awake.

I'll ask the doctor whether there's a need

To be concerned and he will stare unspeaking,

Or whether there is something I should do,

And if he doesn't jeer like I'm ridiculous,

He'll charge a mint to say, “Now what do you think?”

4-30-14