Elegy

who did pötschke
and squander many an opportunity
to become a mensch
instead he became...

finds me (a doggone muttering Homo sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock...

President James Earle Carter...

​​​​​​Your Years of my childhood...

​​​​​​Oh the irony that...

With your eyes will you see?

With your ears will you hear?

You have wisdom built in......

for enlightening my senses
to the evocative, reciprocative
and suffocative
auditory...

I rubbed my eyes as they shut

Knowing when I open them
all things seen before me will be the...

This Court is for you...

As you listen to the charges...

If it does not resonate with you...

wrought the zygote
that resulted from the union
of a female gamete (egg, or ovum)
with...

In crimson lips, a tale concealed,
Love’s first sign is thus revealed.

On the tongue lie...

alternately titled: a literary retrospective when holiday times living hand to mouth in Penn Valley fraught...

Basking in a supine position
with eyes wide shut
while the space heater churns out
...

We have heard of the 1%...

Our thoughts go to to Wealthy?

There is another 1%...

...

assassinated at 10:50 PM,
on December 8, 1980
forty four years later to date
outside...

The moonlight spills
On the pathway like silvered milk.
In forms pools outside my window....

I’ve got his death certificate.
I’ll keep it.
I don't want you to tell me one day
...

If God had many Children...

Did Jesus have other Siblings?

If Jesus is our Father......

Amidst the Homo sapien species
one anonymous baby birthed:
I recount one little known piece...