I now realize
that people wear headphones
not to escape their reality
but to escape your reality
-Doctor’s waiting room while experiencing someone's
drifts on fog across the park,
ravens unimpressed
Birth and Death
I watched the massive
hospital expansion project from
the 8th floor waiting room window
captivated by the immense effort required
to give birth to the new buildings
until my concentration was broken
by a black hearse driving slowly away
down an old access road
alone and without ceremony
-UCSF Hospital, August 2025
A Retraction on Kenneth Rexroth
After saying his poems
were overblown and too serious
I found this brilliant stanza as proof
he actually could get to the point
in less than 25 pages:
Vulture
“St. Thomas Aquinas thought
That vultures were lesbians
And fertilized by the winds.
If you seek the facts of life,
Papist intellectuals
Can be very misleading.”
08/14/2025
Awake and Dreaming
We have given our learning machines
the wealth of our collective knowledge
but since they do not sleep
they have hallucinations
by using random bits
of data and images
to create false realities
which perfectly describes
what happens each night
when I dream
08/26/2025
They say one should exercise
the body as well as the mind
but I have yet to see a jogger smiling
like I do when I read a book
08/28/2025
