Category Archives: Neighbors



Occasional Verse

In olden times, the laureate was forced
To celebrate occasions—that new birth,
A coronation, perhaps the grim course
Of recent history. To prove my worth,
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Posted in Aging, Beauty, Friends, Neighbors

My Neighbor

Poetry 101 lays down stiff rules—
Each word must count, strike hard! Eschew clichés!
But rules (the cliché holds), often just tools,
Are made to be broken, and clichés say, Continue reading →

Posted in Neighbors, Poetry (What is it?)

Preserving Plutocracy: Part I—Weeds

An obese neighbor with striped politics,
Distressed by socialist taxes spoke out:
“Take the world’s wealth—divide it equally
Among everyone on earth—in five years Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Neighbors, Politics

Youthandage

My neighbors’ child Cash, now sixteen months old—
Life measured in months! While my years, decades,
Eras rush. I know for whom the bell tolls:
For this time-hollowed wreck—drained, degraded. Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Neighbors

Across the Walk—2

It turns out Joe travels not only to
Reykjavik, but Thailand, Rumania
And Hell itself knows not where else. A true,
New odyssey driven by mania. Continue reading →

Posted in Illusion, Neighbors

Across the Walk

Erin and Joe and Cash and Blue abide,
Quietly, in a house across the walk.
I don’t know them well; I stroll by, wave “Hi,”
And, sometimes, pause for neighborly brief talk. Continue reading →

Posted in Neighbors