Make merry, be happy

Grab a beer

Spread the cheer

Forget the tears

Drown your fears

Life is not last year

Not even next year

It’s every whiz of breath

Every beat of heart

Like death

That can’t be postponed

Delayed

Reversed

Repeated

So is life

Make merry, be happy

Introduction through Sex

Or what was it?

Dick, Dick, oh Dick

Please don’t do that

You had promised

Fanny, you don’t mean …

Please, no, please

Fanny, just let me

Dick, please do it fast

(That way I got to know

My neighbors next floor

Forgotten the inn’s name

Fanny and Dick, never)

A prayer to nobody

I just wish tomorrow could be different

Anything better, morbid, even devastating

Than these vapid, insipid, days of numbness

Of dud promise, pernicious, sheet of sameness

Anything but mourning pans for breakfast

Something but thoughts of halcyon past

That which can suffuse me with hopelessness

For hope has turned me a wretched mess

Every morn a prayer and a hope

That masks the soul that is hobbled

By years of scavenging for any job

That will make me human even a jot

Tomorrow I walk the streets again

Tomorrow I check the mails again

The standard regret: we are sorry but…

They all just hit their resend button

I just wish tomorrow could be different;

Than struggles that same way demur

Death has no more in store

Than these hardscrabble stories

Hunger pangs; do all you want

Death is all your worst

Which I live daily with no fear

More painful are tears of failure

Hee and Sh-ee

He said I want
She claimed I won't
He groped for it
She dropped for it

Silent rainbows

She said THANK YOU!

I choose my death!

I missed the good life,

Not by a whisker

Never the good death,

Not even by a whit

A lazy meal of beef

A slew of laced beer

And no few puffs

I laze in my bed

 Drizzling in the meadow

A bird sings her sizzle

To a rainbow in the mount

And home descends my sun

Bringing my staff

As my son is wont

He sees my state-

Ahaa dad is gone!

A lasting smile

Palms saying bye

Eyes shut in bliss

I chose a good death!

Of a lady in England

Of a lady in England

Oh Victoria Pryce!

What a price to pay

As land a victory

As be her victor?

For money and love

World around moves

Aint have the former

Lots of the latter

Better it were both

Was me an alchemist

To change my chemistry

Into a mystery mission

To her home in Midlands

Being not, oh misery!

Oh unwise foolish love

You wild brute force

Why a too married lady

With kids too

Be your loyal object?

I remember when I loved

when eyes could in the darkest of night see

her angelic self in the brightest of day

when we would to and fro unwilling to

part each other’s party

when her lyre strokes lulled me asleep

 in the shadow of her bosom

when her reproves warmed  than

any a gentle of approvals

when hers was her in her absence

when her friends were mine no less

when my mind had not a mind for other

when I could see me waking up to her

by my side without end

when I could see us walking our baby

 a hand each by the side

when we never missed what to laugh

when all I talked with all was her love

when love was all there was to living

when because for her I did  live

when I had  a life

when I was in love

I remember