Category Archives: Wisdom



Life—What’s It Good For?

Squinting at the dark end of the tunnel:
“What is it that I was supposed to do?”
I ask myself. Life, that tapered funnel,
Shrinks each bright prospect, tinges hope with rue. Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry (What is it?), Wisdom

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

On the Way to the Hospital

One day, driving on Western Avenue
To cheer my reconstructed wife,
A curbside, spastic gumby caught my eye.
One of those puffed-air waving figures
Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Joan, Wisdom

Bliss

Bliss, like the ages of man, has stages.
The unremembered first, doubtless, the teat.
At ten I won a bike. Didn’t get laid
Until eighteen (memorably unsweet!)—
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Posted in Aging, Death, Wisdom

C’mon! Get real! (Epistle to a Dead Poet)

Maybe October is the cruelest month,
Not April. What crass beef could poets have
With Spring’s mild life-fomenting mists? Why shun
Those new-bred fragrant lilacs? Why so grave, Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry (What is it?), Wisdom

Epitaph

For three years
I’ve been an arthritic
Member of this gym
Working out Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Wisdom