Category: daily life
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pre-mortem meditation
Boney ass jowls bite chair You research Meningiomas Read how they normally Are slow growing and benign And hope yours is not exceptional Walking with reading glasses on Makes you dizzy and you think, Maybe, it is better to remove the glasses Each time you rise to pee Or give up reading altogether And never…
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Writer’s block
Wake up in the morning Check Facebook Make breakfast, wash dishes Check Facebook Brush teeth, floss Check Facebook Go for a walk then take a dump While checking Facebook Jump in the shower, take a nap Check Facebook Adjust fantasy football team Check Facebook Cook dinner for when the spouse gets home Check Facebook Go…
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Elephant in the room
She wanted to discuss the pachyderm lounging on the couch He said an elephant couldn’t fit through the door And neither could it fly through the window She rose from their bed, put on her clothes and went to the door He asked where she was going in the middle of the night To the…
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Worship day
On Sunday, dog walkers sleep in Mowers and blowers slumber in sheds Old man gathering sticks in his yard Watches a bike rider disappear over hill Bull frog does its best impression of Barry White Booming bird calls in woods A friend of a vegan friend with COVID, texts Can you drop almond milk off…
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Before the cock crows 3 times
trash barrel rattles something alive inside tap the barrel nothing climbs out walk to the pond sip coffee dry still the barrel rattles something alive inside listen as it scratches up sides desperate to flee halfway home an inner voice says kindness to all means all life is sacred grab trash tongs from porch walk…
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you nod from your porch I nod while I walk this intimacy of strangers sustains us both 9-6-21
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Quatrains at 55 degrees
Cool, windless dawn Mist hovers over pond unwilling to leave Fish rise, kiss the bottom of sky Puckered ripples replicate to nothingness Cardinals call back and forth Squirrels churl and chase overhead Anoles and frogs are hunkered down Insects await the sun to speak I return to our yard with empty cup Sovereign lord of…
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haiku for the Tri-State construction traffic jam around Chicago
road river riders orange and white sentinels line the path through hell 8-26-21
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hometown visit haiku
the mountain flows up from where the river pulls it one piece at a time 8-22-21
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haiku driving north through Indiana flatlands
distant horizon anvil cloud draws rain curtain across fields of corn 8-19-21
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