Trabajo Mucho

May Day
celebrating the worker
examining the balance sheet
watching things tip further
in the wrong direction
for so many

A Case Against Wakefulness

Lately, sleep won't let me up
An alarm sounds, I curse,
Shut it off and fall instantly
Back into dreams

 

Soldier's Things

Cut Of His Jib

I can see now
at my present age
that he isn't really a
captain of anything, just
harmlessly crazy, trying to
make us all feel a little safer
and in control which is a pretty
captainly thing to do after all.

Before Lights Out

Tenderizing
not toughening
a step in that direction
maybe I need to learn to 
laugh again

Tom Waits. Heartattack and Vine. 1980.

Something Grimmer Than Faith

Those that stand to help

are assailed by evil
rising from that
very same place

this

combined with the
indifference of god

and the relentlessness
of time

makes for a
poor prognosis

yet

they will do
it again
tomorrow