Libido

urgent desire for immediate release by whatever the means
which driveth the need, careening and wild
wicked concoction of frustration and habit
indelibly "romantic" and utterly practical
as the knitting of mittens for summer
or the cooking of live lobsters
in boiling water

Rear Mirror Catharsis

I'll attempt to write verse on a subject not dear to my heart
a 12 hour haul from the Atlantic seaboard to the hills of Georgia
my back sweating the upholstery

hallucinating on the highway,
shouting to stay awake
radio searching,

singing bluegrass,
singing hip hop
talking to ghosts of friends and relatives

long and uneventful,
the drive not the poem
the poem is short and uneventful,

and done with

Blast on Mount Telescope

Cosmos, cosmos winging strong
from somewhere inward
flying outward,
as we who calls it, sees it ---
Big Banger Theory of Organized Chaos
Cosmos, cosmos
tripping pretty.

Beside being like a grapefruit,
the universe is a multidimensional wheel
the middle, its center,
its center, the engine
center to middle to axle attached,
like fruits are to trees
conjoined by their stems, till ripely detached.

In the beginning, there was no beginning.
There was void and, man, was it void
from bottom to top not even an echo!
But Void soon was loaded,
and crammed to the rim, with all sorts of things,
protons and pings and dings that glowed in the dark.
In the beginning, it was spooky.

And lo,
like a silo
in the Dakotas,
spontaneous combustion,
the silo exploded.

Grapefruit Universe

In a grapefruit universe
life would be simple.
The universe is as is because it's acidic.
Family of oranges, lemons, key limes,
which hang tight to the branches
till picking time, or like spent ammunition,
they drop to the ground.

A grapefruit Universe would be complete as could be,
watered and sunned from above, nourished from under.
Whether Florida yellows or Tex Ruby Reds,
grapefruits don't shrivel like thinly skin fruit.
Of superb design, they're also nutritious.
You won't find grapefruit connoisseurs
overly poundage.

In Grapefruit Universe,
physicists could readily determine the geometric shape
of each of Grapefruit's components.
Thus, higher math would be made as simple as pie;
that mass is no solid but relative fiber,
and space is that allocation where in a given segment
more pulp could be fitted.

In Grapefruit Universe,
the trinity of essence would be
flesh of fruit, seed and juice.
It's rind would be the fabric of time.
In Grapefruit Universe,
you and I
would be god.

Womb World

Womb World turns whore
when she dishonors her teachings.
Where her power she'd peddle,
she reclines with swines.

When she balances the scales,
She's the King's favorite.
When she mothers in mercy,
she's right on the mark.

Astronomical Imponderables

Imagine a star whizzing
at a million miles per hour
Why not a 100 million miles per hour?
Why not a 1,000 million per second?

Truly, 1 million miles per hour
is fascinating --- as are the flights
of hummingbirds, as is the theory
advanced by Sawyer McGurdy in 1911

In his Theory of Alien Species,
Mc Gurdy argued that crickets
immigrated to earth on a comet from Mars
around the time that the dinosaurs extincted.

Mc Gurdy also believed that the cosmos
could be just one big concert hall in the process of emptying.
In his sequel to The Theory of Alien Species,
the author opined, "Mass is merely a cruder form of music."

Is Heaven A Circle

The unknown stands shapeless.
Heaven being an unknown,
its shape is left to calculations of ruler and mathematics.

Ideas have shape,
no matter how oddly configured.
Passion, runs the gamut of shapes and sizes.

Heaven being an idea,
heaven being a gamut,
architects have modeled it Romanesque and Gothic.