Category Archives: Illusion



Retirement

Why is it so damned hard to do nothing?
Once, when I worked two jobs to feed the kids,
To pay the rent, my burdened heart pouting,
Consumed by stress, my whipped imprisoned id Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Illusion

Happy Poem

Relatively few were killed today
In Sudan, Iraq, Kenya, and Chad.
Even Pakistan was mostly calm.
Bright sun, warm air, pert women—not bad Continue reading →

Posted in Illusion, Politics, Religion

Voodoo Biochemistry

I pride myself on being smart and cool.
I understand decay, mortality.
And yet, I cannot fathom the misrule
Of mind trumping corporeality. Continue reading →

Posted in Illusion, Joan, Wisdom

Thanksgiving

Thanking is complex, reflecting, often,
What didn’t happen as much as what did.
Dad fled Poland, escaped Nazi coffins,
(But not to Somalia, dank, fetid Continue reading →

Posted in Illusion, Religion

Google It

Lumphinnans? Lochgelly and Cowdenbeath?
C’mon, gimme a break! Imagination
Is one thing, but to label Scotland’s heaths
So fancifully? Truly stunning, fun Continue reading →

Posted in Illusion

Baby

I meet my neighbors’ child, Olivia,
From time to time, carried in the harness
Strapped to her father’s chest, oblivious,
Unmoved by all our bleak world’s foul distress. Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Illusion