A Fine Inauguration

A fine inauguration,
The first president of the United States,
born in the former Kingdom of Hawaii
takes the oat to defend us on Abraham Lincoln's and MLK's bibles

The only thing to make the event more solemness
would be the inclusion of the bibles
of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

The Learning of Language

The learning of language
are exercise in discipline.

When I bid you to be quiet,
I mean for you to zip it.
When I tell you to "shut up,"
it does not mean to start complaining.

The learning of discipline
is the practice of self reliance.

Mother Tiger and Her Kittens

In a world raw, regurgitated,
just too violent to stomach,
what options due we half?

Be a sheriff, pack a rod.
Shoot to kill. Aim for the middle,
you might hit the jackpot

But absent badge, and desiring none
neither desiring to hip holster nor shoulder arms,
my bushmaster rifle is Christ compassion.

You may maim and murder me,
but you cannot disrupt
my peace for long.

However, what if
you're a stay home mom,
kids to protect, three little girls?

Pedophiles and sadists abound,
may even reside one block down.
The swamp is dank, dismal and dark,

Don't bluff, be ready, Mom.
Post a warning at the door. 
Mother Jumpers will be shot on sight.

Intruders, invaders beware.
This house is armed like you have no idea.
No care you be census taker or  Jehovah Witness.

Fortuitous

If it is a defect, it is a beautiful defect.
If it is an accident, it is a fortuitous accident.
It does, it happens
in art and in science.

We may suppose to grasp route causes
We are skilled at building the wonderful Hubble,
but in the deep, the very deep,
there is no top, no bottom.

The humble prayer is adequate,
the unconditional surrender to  Mystery.
I am not a brook, but my hands and feet
plunge into them in spring melt or winter peak

The cosmic purpose of humanity
is  fulfilled when everyone accepts
the duty to make and leave things of beauty
as did the Ancients in the stunning sights they left us

I love the trumpet of Miles Davis
I wonder if anyone feels him
as intensely as eye dew.
I melt as melt the icy brooks,

Acapulco Vactione

Think about it -
Woman's nipples are covered
for public consumption for general audiences.

How cone not the nipples of men?
Are we all babies?
Is there a difference between eye fed and breast fed?

186th Street

A 9-day cliffhanger. Lost in Manhattan.
A hole in the wall.  Hole and wall are terms of art.
They are choices not chance.
Really?

A 9-day letter,
A 9-day passage from Bremerhaven
The Neumann Factor
186th Street

How Good Is My God

Could I have wished a New Year's Day
to suit a projected idyllic mood,
to soothe the soul, to whet my appetite
I could not have wished for more, my deer.

You  on the coals, me stoking the flames
Drizzle pearling the gray light morning
Me a little wiser than last night.