Long Off hand Poems

Lake county music company filled with 
slots carney folk real carny folk the little 
pete's illegal gambling road show throughout 
the  Midwest gaming like your idol Frank Peter 
Balistreiri the mad bomber stops Metropolis...

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Michael and Carolyn came home again
Their busy lives disrupted by death's end
Not knowing they'd encounter love unrestrained
By coming home for mom's funeral to attend
Life has some changes for which to contend
Michael and Carolyn were shocked...

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The rage builds from within, and the rain follows.

A celebration, for one friend, of a new age, a new day - 
from whence the trouble came, I'm all too afraid I know.
Despite what some of...

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Christmas Day has arrived; the thought fills me with such dread
For over twenty years they’ve come to me; it's doing in my head!

I get up at the crack of dawn to get the turkey in...

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It was cold and windy, always seemed to be the same
whenever he dug out a grave and often it would rain.
Grave digging was something he knew someone had to do
that was his job and he...

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Long ago, I built for myself a citadel.
A fortress of stone and shining marble,
deep within the confines of my heart's depths.
I retreated there in my darkest hours,
seeking solace in the vast halls
that swallowed the noise,...

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there dwells a darkness in us all
          those shadows trembling faintly
               to...

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“Hey, Jack, I’m so pleased to meet you.
For years now I’ve been fascinated by the dangerous
situations you find yourself in everywhere you go.”

“Thanks, man, I've had quite an incredible life, indeed!”

“I look forward to your...

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I know that it struck me as strange
the moment I first felt the change,
a first inkling, it came to me
way back when I was twenty-three,
was my first summer out of school,
I met with my friend...

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The second time was three years later,
when my cousin called me ‘hater,’
she had gone and got pregnant, see,
despite only being eighteen.
The father had, of course, skipped out,
she claimed,”I don’t need him anyhow!
I am just fine...

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Yesterday Auntie Mabel’s latest letter arrived in the mail
Telling me she is finally retiring at year’s end without fail,
That she’d heard from Aunt Lula Fay who is rather frail
And, is upset because her nephew Sid...

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There's a legion of doc-ologists to keep us on our feet.
A glance in the telephone book reveals a list complete!
Seems there's an "ologist" to care for us from head to wiggly toes,
Prodding, poking and dosing...

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Sorry if I made you worry.
To doubt or question me.
It's totally understandable.
And even I can this see.

Sorry if I hurt someone,
Somewhere in my past.
Sorry if I felt hurt as well.
And the pall it did once...

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The nit-natter chatter of thoughts
circled their drill to dissipation and silence
then in reaching their pause
gave undetermined panic a question
who is watching
who is listening
is anyone paying attention

The echoes tempo of frustration
and the greedy anxiety of self...

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In our lives filled with lofty goals,
We may reach for much beyond our means,
And as interest is piqued and grows,
We sell wisps of notions as our pipe dreams, 

Yet while news breaches concerned factions,
Of those...

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You are the master of self aggrandizement

You have forgotten how to be in the wrong,
Manipulation is your art, 
Insidious word-play, gentle put-downs,
Reminders of all my failures are your tools, 
I am the dartboard,
Peppered with your...

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So many people in here
But still
You're alone
Must be in some way better than home
Still
The TV shows what can be real
I don't wanna be aggressive
But your pull infected
Me and my instincts
Like a sweet disease

NOW WAIT NOW!!
please!!!!!

I'm...

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A Soldier's Story of A Tale

Had Raymond, and I not ever met
By some old and tethered Ancient Inn
We should have sat down and probably set
Besides an eccentric novelty of bumperkin

But inside the open ranges thus...

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An old man sits on a churchyard bench
with his memories of times long ago. 
When he was the Vicar of the church
 and the people he’d come to know.

He recalls when he married a couple
on...

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It was over in Brooklyn,
No, not a Met’s game.
God forbid that.
“The world was, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.”
In which the first man jumped.

It was all over really, 
That 12...

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Moon shares its throne to sun
Cast its light to all that call
Sea holds a place for land
As does tree for leaves that fall

Voice to whisper rings a listen
Yell to echo as you near
Heart send beat...

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Bullets. 
Funny thing with bullets trillions of them are fired every year 
hitting nothing only pushing air aside for a brief moment.
Bullets are not birds that fly and have useful destination, say, 
catching insects. A...

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As I look to see the way she stands 
when I leave 
-I'm surprised as if a wave, 
reminds me.
As long as the shadow of etertinity- 
drawn from the drip of the cup 
of our...

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No message to send
                          No corner of light around the...

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sweat off hand when to understand the twist of such a man
in the garden you prayed to your father was it any wonder
shelter left for shelter and falling under
just to touch the hem on his...

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