The keeper of the world

The Kitten

There's pleasure in a cat

To watch him play.

He pounces on a mat

Then runs away.

He backs up very warily,

Then jumps.

He walks the corners charyly

And though somebody bumps

The bookcase he is on

He doesn't fall.

Suddenly he's gone,

And that is all.

Composed While Taking A Dump

Some people live for love

And have a pet.

Others only love

What they can get.

And when the ore is gone,

They take the air.

You think they die alone?

Life's not that fair.

The bad will always get

What it adores.

Just hang on very tight

To what it yours.

Keep it if you can.

Perhaps you can't.

Yesterday a tune,

Today a chant.

Nothing but a god

Goes undefiled.

Look at what they did

To Oscar Wilde.

 

July Third

Winco was packed -

A grocery store.

Flags and melons -

July Four.

To mark the day

The country was born,

More important

Than Christmas morn.

Patriotic -

Might is right.

Bombs and sparklers

Tomorrow night.

Across the country

A single name -

All Americans -

All the same.

And coming out of

A crowded line -

One black man

With a jug of wine.

 

The keeper of the world

The keeper of the world

Can't run his own affairs.

Nor can I.

I f-ck up everything.

I do it unintentionally

Or by going nuts,

By loving too completely,

By loving not enough.

Compassion! I can feel it.

It's difficult to show.

And I was told with emphasis,

“For god's sake, ask a question!”
I don't. I don't know why I don't.

I'm curious as hell.

As well I seldom say what I am thinking.

So the world goes by.

How can I stop it?

Ask for its attention?

Write poems for its praise?

I do not write for praise.
In fact I do.

11-23-12

 

Impossible

Anything is possible

They say.

For instance – every criminal

Will pay.

That's such a silly notion,

And untrue.

What a motherf-cker

Does to you

Will leave you full of hate,

And that's the end.

Far worse is her mistreatment

Of a friend.

Perhaps she'll go.

Impossible for sure

That I will ever give

A damn for her.