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
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