Equality

Equality

Must I die because the wars

Are killing men in Syria?
Must I starve or go without

What otherwise would make me happy

Because the north side has too little

Money for its residents?

I don't favor people. But I

Donate for the animals,

As much as I can spare.

Somewhere in Iraq a bullet

From a follower of Bush

Killed a boy who would have grown

Into another Rupert Brooke.

Belief

She said she had no use for prayer,

No heaven, no Jehovah there.

She said her children wouldn't pray.

That was all she had to say.

Firm and obstinate, strong willed.

Her house was burned, her father killed.

Unknown

Anyone who writes some poems flaunts them.

I write poems too, but no one wants them.

Will anybody see them when I'm dead?
Will they decay unnoticed and unread?

My life is nearly over, I am still

Like a trolley scaling every hill

In San Francisco where the beauty lay

Among the flower mongers by the bay

In the early dawn, as safely then

As the chicks beneath their mother hen.

 

Requiescat

Go to sleep, my darling.

Sleep irreducibly good.

Jesus loves an angel

In a box of wood.

Your hair is long and gentle

Strewn across your breast.

Your eyes are closed forever.

Decay is heaven blessed.

5-30-13

 

Requiesecat

I knew my heart was dead

When I didn't cry

When my cat of several years

Vanished like a sigh.

I took him to a cliff,

Dropped him in the sea.

Kitty was the first to go.

Next it will be me.