Best Tragicomic Poems

The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris

I led a boring life.
The end.

All joking aside, now the epilogue.

As a bookish fellow born January 13th,1959
he attended school and got promoted
as a mediocre student,
who honestly nearly failed every grade
courtesy my nasty, short
and...

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equating dreams
as thought forms
by heart conjured
we pause the cause
of such movement 
getting to the roots
body identification 
also termed as ego

negating nothing
we examine desire
that so manifests
deluded cravings
again and again
needing fulfilment 
in this life or the next
until thirst is quelled

surreptitious ego
offers specious logic
that we may accept
validity of...

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On a roller coaster, we smiled as we fell,
being aware ascent would follow descent
but in real life, we perhaps cannot tell
and most certainly heart contractions resent,
so we dwell in darkness, drawn to desire’s smell,
fearing to grant embrace of love our consent.
Piquant is our dilemma, free...

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