Sophia, O Sophia!
Gentle be the rain
Mr. David Markson
Santiago, Spain

Life is suffering
Perpetual the pain
Courage, please. Endurance.
22 South Main

I took two years of Latin
But I wasn't very good
Rome on my honeymoon
And in my neighborhood

Wish I wasn't so sad
Wish I wish I could
To sleep perchance to dream
Just like Fire would

Sick and suffering, they said
Sick and suffering is true
Green and gold Mason Nation
Carolina blue

If I die at night
If I die in you
I wish I may I might
Finally be flew

              'tis true

At times a bit crazy
Often deeply sad
Am I late along?
Grateful for my dad

Not an academic
Disability
Slowly, very slowly
Please protect my 3

           please we

I'm not an academic
Didn't quite fit in
Dr. William Thomas
Thomas means the Twin

Life is suffering
Always to begin
Yes, Cardinal Newman
We have to lose to win

        destiny within

The diabetes might **** me
Might be late along
I post on Facebook
3 Neil Diamond songs

I've been to New York City
Wedding in Tel Aviv
Satellite Beach, Florida
Hutch, Mike, and Steve

Having trouble sleeping
Don't know what to eat
2 steps forward
3 steps in retreat

Shiloh. Shiloh. Shiloh!

I'm a troubled soul
With religious obsessions
Tendency to confession
Pain in my mind

Ethan Hawke today
Flannery O'Connor
What we seek
We find?

    I hope you treat me kind.

I might be grateful to die
Put me out of my misery
Life is pain, Highness
I'm sick. I suffer through.

                 Y Tu?

I keep on writing
Don't know why
A kind of play
Exoplanets sky

Some good thing
Before I die
Some good thing
Something Thai

        Aye! Aye! Aye!

Vienna for 3 days
            snow
                O!

I'm no one important
Suffering life
Beautiful sons
Crazy wife

Monsoon rain
Reno snow
Life is pain
O we O

  on we go

My shoulder hurts
My heart aches
Life is suffering
Every cake you bake

Ethan Hawke
Cedarsnow
Mr. Keating
Yoko yo yo!

Do my best
Don't give up
Time is the Cross
Quayzar pup

Do my best
Sleep till noon
Bankgkok blues
Rain monsoon

   Flaming June

Not much joy
A whole lot of tired
Worried fears
Nameless Dread

Please keep them close
Safe, protected
Moving forward
Rocks ahead

I'm no one important
Barely even matter
2 on, 2 men out
Hey batter, batter!

Tired, very tired
Taxi for my son
To get through the summer
Con un pequito fun

                    Fun!

I try to cultivate gratitude
To counteract despair
Election season again
Highwater Everywhere

Please help me be a good dad
Shower him with care
Slowly guacamole
Help me do and dare

I'm all fear and nervousness
So difficult to relax
I accidentally hit a tree
Anxiety attacks

My life is pain on pain
George W. destroyed Iraq
DC Metro train
ACDC back in black

I'd like to write a beautiful poem
Give it to you at night
3 Dylan songs
Gatsby's green light

Sunlit summer day
Sor Juana's mystic flight
Just to do my best
Though things don't work out right

               abgeschiedenheit

I'm lonely as the rain
        struggling
              life

Gratitude for sleep
And for getting off work early
Loneliness in my house
Kinda hard to keep

They're ok today
One day. One more day.
Xie xie.
Xie xie ni.

Gratitude for small victories
Please let him find a job
Slowly. Day by day.

                       Hope!

All fear and worry
       Protection!

The rain is comforting
Wash away my Blues
Woke up this mornin'
Got my mind on you

Calm, please calm.
Take it easy, Take it slow
Postcards and stamps
No one on Earth will ever know

                       Yo!

Yes, I get headaches
Sleep, blessed sleep
Tired of my life
I wish but wish in vain

A little hope. Exoplanets.
Resting
Sleeping
Gentle rain

My love for my sons
A little lamplight rain
Aging is a *****
I take the Downbound Train

Please keep them safe protected
Please keep her calm and sane
3 beautiful boys
But I can't explain

                        Hope!

Fightin' off a headache
Wishing I had hope
So much, so much sadness
I lay in bed and rest

Thank you,Life, for my sons
Endurance
Commitment
Qualyxian Quest

Got him through the year
Two more to go
Boston in the winter
All that ice and snow

I love him, love him dear
And I tell him so
A gazillion fulsome fears
On and on y yo ...

Woke up early this morning
My shoulder hurts from the shot
2 prayers for Ry
2 prayers for Scott

I'm tired. Exoplanets.
Rain came down came rain
If I die at night
Take the Downbound Train

Talk to my son today
Keep him right on track
Nixon destroyed Cambodia
George W. destroyed Iraq

California Coast
California snow
Am I late along?
Probably never know

                   So ....

Never been to Mexico
Guadalupe green
Have been to Chicago
Have read Things Not Seen

My son soon turns 11
I bought him a soccer game
Gandalf. Gandalf.
Serves the Secret Flame

I'm almost 55
I too know despair
American elections
Highwater Everywhere

Chips with mild salsa
Vegetarian burritos
My mother buried, buried
In her hometown Toledo

               Go Rockets!

Bring me to Seattle in summertime
I go a-questing the American Sublime
Brown body, I lick the crumbs
Let you in September, When it Comes
Sacred Summer, I drink the Wine
Krishna! Krishna! What is Time?

I took the London train
Mozart Christmas Eve
Satellite Beach, Florida
Hutch, Mike, and Steve

My dad is very good to me
Keeps me among the living
My son turns 11 now
Gifts are for the giving

My death won't be important
Remembered by very few
My Irish eyes are green
But I'm Carolina blue

                    Y Tu?

Stockholm is so pretty
Vienna is so snow
I miss my youngest son
And I love him so

The diabetes might **** me
I'm not yet 55
Try to love my sons
In my time yet alive

                 Strive.

So much religious nonsense
And it works
People are stupid

I have religious anguish too
Lifelong
But I can let it go

I admit
I like cathedrals
Surrounded by snow

But
If there's God
We'll never know

Dailiness. Ordinary. Sleep.

Encounters with Chinese hermits
                     Red Pine
                       Eliade

I can't ever reach
Don't ever find
The pain of daily life
Pain in my mind

Gotta get him through high school
Slowly. Dailiness.
Slowly guacamole
Just to do my best.

                  Yes

I'm not gonna be any great activist
I sleep late and long
Drive alone in my car
Listen to a Dylan song

She's crazy and it hurts
I try to patiently wait
The desperate wish for Destiny
Destiny not Fate

      the hour is getting late...

My son plays video games
I post trailers on Facebook
The night is long and lonely
Politics is Despair

Probably won't travel again
Don't have any money
Election season again
Highwater Everywhere

          County Fair! County Fair!

I'm grateful when people like my poems
It means I had something to say
Night has come again
Difficult the day

I was in France on my honeymoon
Drank tea outside Chartres
Our architecture is boring
But movies are American art

Saw No Country for Old Men
Keep posting scenes from True Grit
Donald Trump is guilty
And he's full of ****

Read Albert Camus at JMU
I rebel; therefore, we exist.
Would that it were true
In ******* times like this

    Dear Wendy,  I miss your kiss.

It's never gonna get better
But it will pass away
I lay in bed and lonely
Dawn goes down to day

Rain in the lamplight
4 hours of work
A little 80s music
Ben Shapiro: what a ****.

Maybe aliens
Extrasolar water
Prayers for my 3 sons
And for her two daughters.

                   Ameen.

She's incoherent, paranoid, spiteful
Please help me take it slow
Solamente yo

                   Patientia.

My dad is at a funeral
My son works tonight
I might take a bath
Gatsby's green light

It's not gonna get better
She never will improve
You learn to live with suffering
Suffering on the move

Mr. David Markson
Alone in New York City
Across the Pond in London
Where the women are so witty

No funeral for me
Cremation. Then I'm ash.
Beauty Baltic Sea
Mr. Johnny Cash

                  Fire!

It's a Mess what humans are
Lost, conflicted, confused, constrained
It's not gonna get better
I ride the Downbound Train

Lotus flower in the mud
Art is frozen Zen
San Francisco, California
Sage Ridge School. Muy bien.

                          3710

I'm tired and I'm lonely
Just got off of work
Teacher teaches class
Like she's some kinda ****

Patience please. Waiting.
Help me slowly go.
Santa Rosa sun
Seattle cedarsnow

                   So ....

The human Mess is catastrophic
Lies, fears, lies
Solamente uno
Cut it down to size

Gonna work today
Gonna sleep as well
Then I sail away
Sail with Ishmael


       Me, Todd Witherell.

She's a Monster and schizophrenic
Help me patiently wait

                        wait.

Timor mortis conturbat me
So I sleep, I sleep, I sleep
Now ends the Month of May
Kindnesses to keep

I might need a lawyer
She files for divorce
I'm all on my own
On my own, of course

I like little libraries
Made of wood and glass
Time just gets away from us
Things fall apart, alas

I like True Grit
Ms. Mattie Ross
Aging is painful
Loss after loss

               Reno!

Sandor Marai
      Embers
          kiss

All the King's Men
      Jack Burden
     responsibility

It's all wrong
But I persist
Aging
I resist

I'm older
Clenched fist
Dublin
Irish mist

     Wish

Catteleya in the morning
I wake and see you smile
Calm, gentle storm
We sit and talk awhile

London, Paris, Bangkok
Dublin, Tel Aviv, Taipei
Thank you for the traveling
Live to fly another day

                xie xie