Beware the catch 22
You're damned if you don't, and damned if you do.
Take a drug so cancer won't restart
Side effects give you a congestive heart
Thin the blood so a stroke won't begin,
Internal bleeding and you just can't win.
I got a wolf by the ears
Can't bite me yet, but I'm shedding tears.
When I let go, he'll take a bite
I'm losing my grip, I'm turning white.
You're sorry for those single Mothers
Didn't have husbands, just "significant others"
So you subsidize them with taxpayer billions:
Now more on welfare, about six millions.
You need the cops to pursue a story, to prove you're not mad
But the story is extreme, so no investigation will be had.
Between a rock and a hard place, you're stuck in a bind
I don't blame you for going out of your mind.
You need experience to get a job, but there's a Catch22
Without a job, can't get experience, so what can you do?
Life writes riddles that are hard to circumvent
The path you thought was straight was crooked and bent.
Turn to the left and the trouble grows,
Turn to the right and the same wind blows.
So you laugh a little, though you really feel blue:
That's the strange world of Catch-22.
Insanity in defense of insanity’s insanity.
©7/18/2023
See You Soon
As he struggled to take a breath ,the coughing never seemed to stop,
Praying,crying,anything to give him comfort and peace,
He looked at me with sweet release,
Onward now I shall go into a place I do not know,
Anyone or anywhere , softly I whispered yes you do,I must say before you are gone, it’s he that sits upon his throne,
With shining eyes and loving hands ,then our Savior took command in just an instant you were gone with Christ our Savior to you home,
Beyond the pain and suffering in this life,
Into a heaven filled with light,
And as I whispered a loving tune,
Goodbye my love I’ll see you soon.
Phyllis Heller
6/9/2021
Dedicated to my loving husband David
TELL TALE TITLES
Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”
could have been entitled
“Lost in the Woods”
Thoreau’s
“On Your Own in the Wilderness”
never seen as a treatise on
transcendentalism
and without Joseph Heller
we would have no “Catch-22”.
The title should
in some respect
cause you to reflect
on the less obvious
more substantial nuances
of the body,
the heart and soul,
the essence
of the experience.
Horton may have heard a “Who”,
but children hear an invitation
into an awakening imagination,
a distant place
of magic and mystery
hidden
in plain sight.
John G. Lawless
©4/28/2021
Die Wandgemälde
Licht und Schatten im Zimmer
Vergängliche Kunst
In heller Nachmittagssonne
Stetig wandelnder Reigen
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The wall paintings
Light and shadows in the room
A perishable art
In a bright afternoon sun
Constantly changing round dance
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Pinturas murales
Luz y sombras en el cuarto
Un arte perecedera
En sol de tarde brillante
Constante cambio del corro
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