view2022/3/6 #poetry
Since, to be honest, there's always too much to do if you always want to do everything at once; and, let's be honest, I always want to do everything at once. Only occasionally do I feel like I am. That, of course, never lasts long. Sometimes, when the haze of competing demands is so thick that not a single one is discernible, I find that one of them is happening anyway, although it feels like it's not, and I'm not sure what should really be happening but I'm mostly sure it shouldn't be this, and I'm not sure where it's going or what will happen next, but I do know something should be happening and that if it doesn't then things will be difficult, it is then that I wonder what it would be like to have only very very few things to know and do in a life and be able to comprehend it all.
view2022/3/5 #poetry
There may be a way out eventually. You won't know until you find it. One day, long after you do, you may look back and be shocked at how it feels almost like you totally forgot the distress you lived in for so much of your life. That it is now just a fading memory.
There are probably memories that you have now which would produce a similar effect.
Where you are matters, but where you will be matters too.
view2022/3/4
All the toys won't make life good. You've got to have positive interest in what is happening to you. You have to feel connected. You have to experience ease.
Things won't be a reason not to give up. They can be a distraction, a fascination, for a moment, but that doesn't sustain. Something underlying must be there too.
view2022/3/3 #poetry
Use the language the way you please. Don't let others hold your tongue. Write the way you like to write. It's up to you how it gets done.
Communication is a changing game. Symbolic representation of ideas is arbitrary anyway. If you don't like something you can make up your own rules. They could catch on, it's hard to say ;)
view2022/3/2
Horses aren't silent, but compared to cars, well, they come pretty close. Trains are very loud but they only come by periodically, unlike the constant drone of the freeway. It is hard to say which is better. A continuous drone can seem more peaceful than an intermittent blare, but those do have some quiet in between.
The quiet is the most wonderful when you've been missing it.
view2022/3/1 #poetry
I lived today. I went out to play. I went quite a way. I managed to stay.
Yep, I hung in there until right before the end. Just long enough to make some new friends.
It took the edge away from my pain. To be around people, true weirdos, again.
view2022/2/28 #poetry
Masterful and mesmerizing, what a show, what a show. I'm so very glad that I chose to go.
The costumes, the colors, the fluidity and grace. The fabulous sets in the enormous space.
Altogether quite sublime, a delightful way to spend my time.
When the lights went down the applause was a roar. Everybody wanted more.
They wouldn't get it, no, no, no. That was the end and the performers had to go.
view2022/2/27 #poetry
Twisting my arm won't budge me. No, I'll stay and bear the pain. I won't give up on my decision. I don't care if you act insane. Go ahead and break it. It won't reflect on me. I know that I can take it. As for you, well, we will see. I can of course recover. But your lot will be set in stone. If you push too far you can't turn back. And then you'll be on your own. Your power here is limited. If you want to get your way, you'll need another strategy. This current one won't pay.
view2022/2/26 #poetry
Wendle Plymons didn't like his name
It caused him embarrassment and shame
and everytime introductions came
he thought his parents were so lame
and so very much to blame
for imparting him with one so tame
but even so and all the same
he never tried to change the game
view2022/2/25 #poetry
As you walk through the fog
you take it in
it moves with you
around you
within you
you carry it
you heat it
it changes
you change
You see differently in the fog
you react to it
you notice it
you contemplate it
you take the steps appropriate to the added care required
The fog is so real
so present
so unavoidable
so there
and yet seems
not there
untouchable
ephemeral
for some reason
likely linguistic
and cultural