IT HAS TWO PURPOSES
Pandas do not mate in captivity. In their human-made paradise Pandas clown and play. Aggression between competing males in the wild stimulates the female and saves the Panda bear. She doesn’t want to...
View ArticleTHE NEW LIFE
Today is June, but cooler. China, in the shape of a cloud, is up there. Yesterday the sun beat down and people were having heart attacks. Cloudiness has come to save us. A generation is on the brink....
View ArticleMATHEMATICAL LAUGHTER
An infinite set of numbers is zero. Infinity exists in vain. To be functional and living, to be you, you must be you in a limited chain, a pre-ordered, finished, and singular brain. Poetry depends on...
View ArticleWIE ALT IST DAS?
Are we allowed to believe today whatever we want to believe? I believe the universe is comfortable and small— I enjoy the gist of Christianity. I don’t think science is accurate at all when it comes...
View ArticleI HAVE A FACE
I have a face that is not my face. I don’t mean a mask. A real face underneath the one you see, a face emotionless and beautiful, like the moon. I had to struggle with poems speaking inside the warm...
View ArticleAGE FIXES EVERYTHING
When you don’t care what others think you begin to think. The glance finds its essence. The look dies. Are the miscreants ever going to move out? They do. The empty bedroom becomes your first room....
View ArticleJUST BECAUSE THIS HAPPENED BEFORE
Just because this happened before doesn’t mean it will happen again was her message to me over and over again. Thank God I was in thrall to female kind! They sharpened the maleness of my sentimental...
View ArticleTHE SUMMER MAKES US SLEEP
The summer makes us sleep.Assume slumbering in heaven will be similar,except heavenly naps will last a millennium and we will miss human folly and tearsduring that long era.Sad earth will still exist...
View ArticlePHILOSOPHERS
Philosophers use the word Being and learning chords on the guitar for the first time the Em9 is definitely the word “philosophers.” If you want to move toward love in your philosophy “Being” is a...
View ArticleTHE GOLDEN SUN
I am the first to noticebirds on the tops of trees,cranes in the water,waves that create beautifully transparent seas,and sailors, sailors.When sailors sail away from hereforever, I might possibly...
View ArticleTHE POPULAR
The popular exploits the simple which ends up being the death of it. A bang of excitement. And now there is none. Why God? Because there is. The solution you find is the basic one. The opportunity...
View ArticleCHILDLESS
“the awful daring of a moment’s surrender…” The tempting female formgreets the seed and its face,keeping it safe from every storm.I recall the co-ed dormand the tempting female form.Nothing is...
View ArticleIMPERFECT SHADOWS
What do you want with imperfect shadows? Why do you cry when imperfect shadows die? Why do you fight with imperfect shadows? The only time I won was when I looked in the mirror and knew I was one, an...
View ArticleWE CANNOT HAVE INFINITY
We cannot have infinity, she said, for this will violate physical integrity. “But without infinity there is death. How shall we prevent sorrow and death?” We cannot prevent death. We must die and live...
View ArticleAFTER READING MY HARVARD SQUARE DIARY APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY 1995
“I can’t see your face in my mind” –The Doors There are some who feel more acutely than others life is a forgetting and a failure. She was attracted to me and would stand in the corner, waiting. A...
View ArticleTHE PROBLEM WITH THE HIDDEN
At times I think the whole problem of life is the problem of the hidden. Hidden, we find our greatest joys, but partial ones, and our despair chiefly when others hide from us. Nothing leaves because...
View ArticleTHE PLOT INSIDE THE PLOT
The plot inside the plot is like my life—and yet not.It resembles my thoughts,which are statements of mine;the subject, you and I as one;the poem’s title its first line,a border crossed...
View ArticleTHE LESSON
Can torture be sweet?Is love too great to hold?Is fire and freezing a pleasure?Is poetry best when old?Can philosophy be read in a pair of eyes,Can love not speak for years?Will love in public...
View ArticleTHROWN FROM A GREAT HEIGHT, BURIED FAR FAR BELOW
Thrown from a great height, buried far, far below, kills feeling. Life becomes what you know. Accelerate downward, fearful scientist. Embrace the physicality of the grave. Emotion gone, now thoughts...
View ArticleI LIKED HER AND ADMIRED HER
I liked her and admired her but could not love her. She crept into my life the way an afternoon will fill with light after a cold and somber morning. The quality of afternoon light just before...
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