On St. Patrick's Day

As a child, I wore a delicate
little wire shamrock on my lapel,
webbed with fine green threads;
as a teen, I pled my green eyes.
At a karaoke session last nite,
I sang “The Minstrel Boy (Lad)”
half-well, but only an Irishman
sitting a few tables away knew;
amazed, others congratulated me.


(17 MAR 10, Santa Clara CA)v1

Open experiences

The more I get out & about as a post-operative who’s recently had 2 knees replaced & a heart stented, the more I’m beginning to realize the beauty of what I've often called “adequacy” in daily life & on the web - which is (as far as we see it, now) infinite, while daily life is finite, or the reverse; both are open experiences (as meaningful the 2nd-time as the 1st, the 3rd time as the 2nd, etc.) Reducing either to individually exquisite acts is limiting it. What if its continuity (extension) is part of its actual virtue? Ponder this while you continue to live it. I am, smiling as I edit this.

In a warm place

for Carolin


Just before you died, I asked you
where you wanted to be born again;

“In a warm place,” you told me, so
any warm place I see on the web
I think of us as visiting, together,

as we did Bonaire, then norCal,
where I still live, thinking this.

(02 MAR 10, Santa Clara CA)v2

After CHENEY fell

After CHENEY fell,
he rose again on the 3rd-day
& shuffled to the windows,
beholding the fed.District
laid out before him:

“I have finally conquered
this & all that this controls;
I only have to raise my hand…”

& stopped mid-sentence, his
crooked grin straightening,
& leant on the windowsill,
remembering his heart or
what was once his heart.

(01 MAR 10, Santa Clara CA) v2

CHENEY wins

CHENEY wins the 2009 Prize
for Most Obvious Dictator
in the English-speaking world
& smiles crookedly:

“Maybe next year, the whole
wide world; it's watching me,
wanting to see how I’ll topple
that college professor Obama
who works from lecture notes;
me, I work by long-range plan.”

& locks up the transparency.

(28 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA) v4

CHENEY WALKS

(AP) Surviving 5 heart attacks makes Cheney unusual, showing that he has good medical care as well as a particularly aggressive form of heart disease.


CHENEY walks taller now in a District
that has long known him all too well,
from White House to GWU Hospital.

He’s ‘He Who Walks Tall,’
taller than all of his enemies,

taller than his breaking wave of well-wishers,
admiring his ability to navigate political currents
as political sharks drift lazily down every street,
intent on drawing political blood daily.

Once again, Cheney’s the day’s top story,
thanks to his heart. Thanks to his heart;
thanks to his heart. “Thank you, heart,”
he prays as he falls to his knees again.


(24 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v4

CHENEY'S HEART ATTACKS

CHENEY’s heart attacks him
during the CPAC convention
putting him into a DC hospital
where he’s as happy as hell,
particularly when he hears
the CPAC straw-poll results:
Ron Paul 31%, Romney 22%
Palin & Pawlenty, 7% ea.
Gingrich & Huckabee, 4% ea.
6% undecided, 5% Other.
Gingrich bobbles, minimally.

(23 FEB 10m Santa Clara CA)v3