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the secret penguin

...the sky was cold and grey
when
yesterday
you told me where the Secret Penguin lay
in bygone years
they say he was a sight 
the avian conundrum
in black and white

operating in ice-cold
froz...

Book 1: Secret Penguin Lament

...The sky was cold and grey, when, yesterday, 
you told me where the Secret Penguin lay.
In bygone years, they say, he was a sight, 
the avian conundrum in black and white.  

Operating in ice-col...

Hidden Accounts

...Administrator incommunicado
Acknowledging nymphomaniacs
Reclassifying philosophical
Ideologically Transcultural
Pronunciation Calligraphers
Communication demilitarized
Grandstanding orchestrati...

U Can 2

...U can 2 was on the license plate of my 
store manager brown Benz where a dead man 
was found in the trunk Alston Isadore defense store 
manager at Fort Sheridan Army base Ronald Reagan 
had just ...

Resurrection Polka Musical Chairs

...Water is uniquely ancient, yet it hasn’t aged a day.
It’s older than Dr. Leakey’s bones. 
Older than Olduvai Gorge.
Water is older than life itself,
Unaltered by evolution’s chaotic ebb and flow....

When We Were Little

...Sometimes I wish that we could  
return to the days when we were little.
We use to lie on our backs in the grass,
the four of us; chewing on sour weeds,
watching the clouds change forms from flow...

The Utopian One World State

...--Evil starts as germinated seeds,
noxious weeds of social infestation,
spreading and suffocating human diversity,
pushing all freedoms into extinction,
the loss of Liberty's creed,,
--Men-Women...

Advent Funeral With Birthday

...The coincidence of Advent
and the HW Bush eulogies
reminded me of DJ Trump's challenge
to laugh about himself
at least as quickly and quietly as he laughs against others.

As compared to any re...

A Conversation With An Ape

...If an ape came into my living room, 
And could talk fluently and converse, 
I’d speak with him about sociology, 
Or to her about avoiding the perverse. 

I’d ask how to form friendships, 
How t...

Inside My Head

...Inside my head is rather cluttered
Memories of past blur into memories of present
Looking back to see the many hopes and dreams of a child
Dreams shattered by reality only to be redistribu...

The Perfect Year

...The perfect year,
two equal halves.
One with leaves
one without.
Forest thinning out.
Bring indoors
swing sets, pools, smiles, thoughts.

Having enough and not much else is a lot.
The transf...

The Crossroad

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Logi...

Mutual Messiahs

...Who's vision are you unfolding for whom?

Are you aware you carry a basket of bread
on your head
and still beg at every door? (Rumi)

You love healthy nature.
Like bread, Earth's nature feeds ...

Super Human

...It took two days but I drank the oceans dry
Spat out the salt creating deserts beneath a cloudless sky
I ripped a mountain from the earth and deposited it on the moon
Blew down a giant forest with...

Ideological War of the Worlds

...The coming times can unfold,
far accross to all lands,
the casting shadow has fallen,
with it's far reaching hands,
accross our four cornered world,,
 Humanity progressed to progressive sufferag...

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