Short Santa Cruz Poems

Early mission's ruin makes chaff.
Former pride's diminished by half.
Seen now old destruction's no laugh.
Glory's faded.
Rogues were ruled not by an oak staff.
Prudence jaded....

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A big-time gambler in Santa Cruz
told his wife:  Hey—what’s there to lose?
But she filed for divorce
when he picked the wrong horse
Now he’s left with an old pair of shoes.

2/6/22...

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It's so fun to play eachothers 
lives
write it down
come get inside
on these Giant Carnival Rides
It was a Giant Good One
And it's written all over your 
face

I was just looking for this pencil
when i was thinking of you.
It's all in your brain Big Dummy
Don't let it kill you!
Before I do
I'm getting loser
TO YOU!...

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Don't go Shane, we imagined her tiny kitty saying....
As she clung unto the blanket upon my way, another day
Nineteen sixty-five, standing aside this sea Santa Cruz his child
Even then it seemed merely a dream these, vast rolling emerald waves
Baby never knew their rules; in time, hung down with the freaks and ghouls ?
Trying to paint something of today; portray, words that they wish myself somehow
Swift her brush colours mixed as apologetics acrylic crude; monomania's, stemware stigma....

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