Monday, July 31, 2023

Uppity Second Fiddle To None

 
Don’t bitch and don’t you dare
Hold a grudge either— 
 
Second-best is worse 
Than first only if you can’t 
 
Bear to see another being first. 
 
 
 
 

 

Monday, July 24, 2023

Deaf-mute Janus

 
Who would’ve thought 
I’d be speaking through 
Another tongue one day, 
 
One I never realized 
I had until I heard 
It calling my name, 
 
Sounding out each 
Syllable as if it were 
Reading my lips.
 
 

 

Friday, July 21, 2023

Time Out

 
The last time you tried 
To sit still, clear your mind 
 
Of hodgepodge and think 
Of nothing, turned out 
 
A complete 
Waste of time— 
 
Time to re-examine 
Your priorities 
 
And focus instead 
On all sorts 
 
Of congeries 
In general, that is 
 
To say, oddly 
Enough, nothing 
 
In particular, as it 
Looks to be without 
 
Your knowing it, 
Your one-and-only 
 
Everything. 
 
 

 

Saturday, July 15, 2023

Nostalgia: Eclogue/Epilogue

when 
 
you 
finish 
with 
what- 
 
ever 
you 
were 
 
doing 
all 
these 
years, 
 
find 
the 
time 
 
to 
sit 
back 
 
and 
take 
in 
 
the 
view— 
 
it 
wasn’t 
so 
 
bad 
you 
couldn’t 
 
write 
home 
about
 
it
even
if
 
you 
could 
 
now, 
could 
you? 
 
 

 

Monday, July 10, 2023

Once There Was This Thing Called Water

 
soon 
after 
the 
beginning 
 
and as soon 
as the first 
drops began
 
to fall, 
then
 
the 
ever 
more 
 
rapidly 
spouting 
fountain- 
head 
 
began 
filling 
the 
hollow 
in 
 
the 
Earth, 
ready 
to 
quench 
 
every 
thirsting 
thing 
 
again 
and 
again 
 
but 
before
 
we 
knew 
 
it— 
never 
again.

 

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