New poems

I really don't know how good any of this stuff is, but I guess maybe it's interesting....

Rhine Wine

Golden sup,
fill my cup

Let me glide
into a deep cave
of nothingness

Obliterate me,
sedate me

Turn my sorrows
into the forgotten past

Mesmerize me

Pour down your waterfall
of surcease

Scotch burns my throat,
wine goes down easier

Plunge me into that curious void,
where there is nothing to know,
and nothing to avoid

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The Forgetting

I thrust pictures past
away like old bread -
who needs mold?

Reminiscences only
hurt the heart

The purse may be full,
but what if the heart is still?

I cling to the Heart of Now,
the Holy Heart

thrusting pictures past
away like old bread -

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The Tryst

Our romance was lucky
it brought us both to life -

But I would not have lived with you,
or would ever have been your wife -
I wanted to -

Sometimes you meet a stranger
who tickles your buttons,
but you are already married,
so you smile and chew your gum.

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1/29/17

The state of affairs

Writing about Mom, thinking about Mom, met her in my sleep last night - no, not a dream.  A conversation.  Don't know whether to post my diaries but then who will ever read it?  Who else has this problem?  Ever read a book called "A New diary"?  excellent book.  why don't we want to share?  Doesn't everybody have the same problems really?  It's called "being human." 
What else is new?  Getting more comfortable with writing on the computer, though I still like the hand-head-heart connection.  Recent conclusion:  a la Freud -- we are more influenced by our emotions than by rational thinking.  Example:  I need to have another hip operation but I'm scared ____less, so my heart tells me why bother?  I have had enough of hospitals.  When the pain becomes so bad I can't walk, I may consider it again.  Honestly, hospitals are the pits.  People staring at computers, they call themselves nurses and doctors, even psychiatrists do it.  What has happened to humanity?????
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New poem

The Shadow

Narcissistic bat

of synthetic black

rubbery wings

flying high over a pond –

drinking the scent

of contented ducks below –

such misery of blind bats

enjoys not the simple

happiness of ducks.

On the ground,

a group of sparrows

chattering

in a small pond

made by rain in a hole

in the dirt –

bat listens and waits for death –

the Earth will not comply.

 

1/11/17

conversation

The Difference Between Diet Pepsi & Diet Coke*

H – he

S – she

 S-   If you're going out, could you get me some cigarettes?

H -   Yeah, I’m thinkin’ about goin’ out now.  I wanna buy a bottle of Diet Coke.

S -   Ok, but why?  I saw a whole bottle in there already.

H -   Oh, when was that?

S -   Oh, I don’t know,  yesterday or this morning maybe.

H -   No, that was only Diet Pepsi.

S -   So why do you also need Diet Coke?

H -   I already finished the Diet Pepsi.

S -   You’re kidding!  In only one day?

10 minutes later.....

H -   I had to get Diet Pepsi.  Not the one you like, regular Diet Coke.

S   -  Oh?

H -   But I also bought Decaffeinated Diet Coke.

S -   Oh?

……..(1 minute pause)…..

S -   So did you get me the cigarettes?

H -   What?!  You didn't tell me you wanted cigarettes.

S -   (Sigh.) 

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*[true story!  sometime in the early 2000's]

[That was a long time ago when we could still buy cigarettes.  Now we roll our own tobacco.]

Continuing dialogue between me and EF

Me:  Hello again.
EF:  Hello.
Me:  I don't see so much of you since yesterday.  It's not just the little belly is a little smaller.  My legs are thinner.
EF:  Yeah.
Me:  I think you may be starting to get the point.
EF:  It's not me, it's you.
Me:  But will it last?
EF:  I don't know.  I'll be around if you want me.
Me:  Ok - But wait, this is too easy.  After those peanut butter cookies you had me baking for Christmas, why is it now I see you might be going away?
EF:  I think you might be getting it.
Me:  Me?  I thought you were the one who was moving away, or suddenly seems to be.
EF:  Sometimes you can't tell.  But I'm here if you miss me.
Me:  You said that already.

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