Twenty

Twenty

 

I’ve been caught, a flopping fish on Stearns Pier – sunny day, trying to keep up with tech

which smells like a mackerel on a dock in hot sun.

This looks fishy

 

I know it sounds like I’m complaining

knowing that hooks from the money guys are making these

keyboard keys feel like psychic shocks as I type them…ouch!

 

Mark Elan Zuckerberg Musky smells are coming from Silicon Valley

but the gourmet food being offered tastes like sauerkraut.

 

Ebeneezer Tech has got hot eyes for your wife

on this raging river of computerdom.

 

money motivated mongrels hiding in the keys smell like old big eyed bass

in the fridge and feel like mushy potatoes full of shards of glass

 

But maybe tech is its own flopping fish that should try to keep up with me

perhaps I should let tech be Darth Vader take over from my big baby

Yet, I am fed constant deceit on computers and the world would be much better without them.

 

a good ol’ Apple II GS computer is an apple of my eye

She and I can figure it all out and merge to become Harv the computer whiz

 

flowery techno daisy

 

It’s really easy to figure all this stuff out if I surrender to my inner Yoda

just say oy veh which amazingly slays the dragon that heats these keyboard squares

 

but that dragon speaks in tongues that somehow make sense

to the masses who oddly speak the same language

 

While all l I see on my computer screen are dollar signs that twist and turn like a 300 pound contortionist trying to wiggle out of a phone booth.

 

 

 

 

 

Always

Journeying together
Bonding in new ways
Caring about our lives
Holding hands in times of need
Always and forever

The Essential

cw: none

The canary has never flown;
to fly would mean it would not be owned.
It wonders, now, when it can see the sun
through the room’s tiny window,
what it would be like to soar.
A canary is made to fly and to sing,
and with neither, it wonders:
is it even still a canary?
Or has its very canary-ness been taken,
thrown onto the ground, shattered,
glasslike and glassy
like death’s own reflection?

The teenage witch

Two red headed little girls

With big dreams

They were each other’s only friend

Imagination running wild

Mysterious dolls

Unicorn powers

Dreams unexplainable

Houses made of leaves that share our hair color

Skies that sweep you off of your feet

And then oneday

It’s gone

Separated

Crushed

Forced to go it alone

Nobody ever filled the shoes

Of you

Years pass

We lost touch

But language is touching without fingertips

My dear best friend

My childhood true love

Thank you for being the only one there

When I was alone

When I was scared

When I was forgotten

When I needed you the most

Thank you

Prompt #2

My job is gone. Just

upped and moved away.

“We’ve decided to go

in a different direction.”

It’s a Friday, way after 5pm.

I get drunk as I strip my cubicle

down to its grey blahness. Say

“see ya” to the dying diffenbachia in

the lobby and take the steps

down.

Hour 4: Lithium

There’s a creek

That runs through the middle of town

They say if you drink from it

You will be healed

 

But all I ever got

Were half-filled promises

And a feeling of regret

 

I still walk down to the creek

To dip my cupped hands

And bring them to my lips

For the Children

Shared love and burdens
are scattered
embracing all who enter.

Separate thoughts and cares
change perspectives
connect all who enter.

Shared hopes and visions
shape our future
form all who enter.

Separate ideals and values
value-added dreams
build our home.

Content

NEXT
For You
It’s yours alone and everyone’s too

reverse engineer broken fundamentals
Years are just a human timescale
Count the days, pretend to be sick
IV drip
Lights in a screen
5G
What can you see?
Blurry

Rot in your imagination while conjuring playlist ghosts