4 Mile Shuffle

Outside & Inside
(Only) Halfway to Everywhere

Mezzanine
Indian Summer Sky

Hey Hey My My
Yours

For Allen Ginsberg

whacked out by vision through horn rims
driven by a lust for life and men and justice and aim and ohm
pervert hero, you masturbated publicly hiding your hand under your poetry

an American poet, the grimy sublime of being
sexy tripping along the boardwalk of the world
naked high and free as the ruby sun

I think of you as I watch pigeons mating in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty and ripe young suits have a game of catch through the lunch hour
I think of you when my poems get noticed for their naughty words
I think of you when I capitalize myself

The Human Condition

like a pine cone
landing with a dull thud
destined to become so much brown mulch

knocking loose some fertile kernel
which may take root and become
a masterpiece

look up
through the dry needles
the innocent waste of age

see the symmetry of sky
and trees and sounds of birds
and the sun hiding in the little forest

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