I mostly                                    
just mind my own                                     
mind most times not too                                     
much in to others and such                                    
since when I do ever stop to                                   
consider what everyone else                                   
is supposedly always about                                   
to be totally up to it really                                   
does burst my lovely                                 
- —bubble— -                                 






























"         "         "         "         "

take a deep breath or else

do something you may regret

said the cartoon walrus calmly

and other lessons I didn't get


"         "         "         "         "


































































_ – _ – _ – _ – _ – _

Unglue get unstuck
Undo loosen screw
Unlock let go knots
Unwind release ties
Unpack drop a bag
Unload less to own
Unplug be unpublic
Unbuckle thrust up

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Whatever you do                 
                 Don't listen to me
Whatever you do                 
                 Cease appeasing
Whatever you do                 
                 Please disbelieve
Whatever you do                 
                 Doubt obedience
Whatever you do                 
                 Quit following suit
If you'll follow you                 
                  I'll follow you too






























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Living in my head not half badly
Willingly pretend and am happy
Little-bitty room expands vastly
With imagination grasp grandly
Listening within and chat amply
Winning inwards as satisfactory
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!?!   !?!   !?!   !?!   !?!   !?!   !?!
!?!   Why did I ever do it  !?!
!?!   Why did I never not  !?!
!?!   Why am I still trying  !?!
!?!   Why did I ever stop  !?!
!?!   Why am I the worst  !?!
!?!   Why am I never you !?!
!?!   Why did I feel great  !?!
!?!   Wait you waffle too  !?!
!?!   !?!   !?!   !?!   !?!   !?!   !?!





























california hilltop
fires down below
~~~~~~~~~~~~
estates escapes
summit success
~~~~~~~~~~
poppies lilacs
spanish tiles
~~~~~~~~~
walled wins
whet wants
~~~~~~~~~
hidden hills
frightful rich
~~~~~~~~~~
barren beauty
lonesome peak
~~~~~~~~~~~~
california still life
time winds below
























– hands speak for heart –
– feet lead intent –
– memory seen without light –
– some nowhere –
– we sit and feel and think –
– being one self –
– inside –




























>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
emergent urgent denseness
perch soak rereads essence
subvert skims scrolls fences
parsed world see as endless
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: | : | : | : | : | : | : | : | :
perniciously oblivious
obnoxiously indifferent
abhorrently disinterested
won't worry if you miss this
wish want seek choose please






























• • • imagine a minute how freeing   
   would be to never to even be
     seeing a need to remember to
     question if questions get set in
     a parenthetical end or whether
    an e goes after an i unless if a
     c or ending in y it never fails to
    wrong my write if life could be
     more freed it might bring some
     new things to light were blights
   allowed exceptions expected
      and carelessness accepted • • •































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Forget media make medium
Forget paints create a frame
Forget likers make believers
Forget flickers build a flame
Forget follows fire a beacon
Forget streams be their lake
Forget feeds make the meal
Forget tags slow your chase
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<—  <—  <—  <—
select—all—delete
backspace—rekey
redo—wipe—clean
unspeak—untweet
unstream—unfeed
forget—knew—me
regrets—complete
wait—what—really
my—flaw—unseen
fine—leave—it—be
<—  <—  <—  <—

























——————————
People who never worry—
actually probably should.
People who always worry—
really are probably good.
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what you do — what you don’t
what you will — what you won’t
what you want — what you own
what you share — what you owe
what you think — what you know
what you keep — what you throw
whatever it is — wherever you go
whoever you are — you will show































...all the words ever written
...the many sentences said
...every thought ever thunk
...so many loaded lives led
...all the tons of stuff loved
...mountains of feelings felt
...oceans of intimacy swum
...too grand to comprehend
...all impossibly momentous
...and simply lost in the end





























. • . • . • . • . • . • . • . • .
think outside the inbox
take a walk leave lid off
drift own waltz as if lost
laze about let lists drop
duck forgo soak in stall
break unlearn toss it all
buck upend your install
glide this life in free fall
. • . • . • . • . • . • . • . • .




























walk over talk
show over tell
feel over think
calm over yell
try over know
how over why
am over have
look over find
_   _   _   _   _





























speeding down the freeware
friendly frenzied feedshare
find my every need there
never said would be fair
— - — - –— - — - —
whoa remote controls
slow the rolling show
get hold of letting go
a moment owning no
— - — - –— - — - —
time behind the eyes
alive unblind to finds
try wilder rides inside
by minding quiet lines
— - — - —– - — - —
impressive left unsaid
a self when def to trend
send restlessness to bed
wherever the software ends



























_____________________________________
can you even conceive of a sweeter fate
a goal to seek that’s greater than great
of course there’s have and do and get
and see and eat— the tea and cake
but more or less it stands the test
or nothing left— next step a rest
yep— great is the best bet yet


























A hackers heart—A poets soul
A voice of play—A nope let go
A hope afloat—A broken road
A line let fly—A leisured scroll




























                                                *



May the future still find us
a patch of past brightness
our loss like a galaxy gone
move on yeah from where
when our here is not there
in passing still yet still lost
unlearn what right here is
where distance is nearest
is is just another was now
held meanings get melted
fresh feelings we felt them
as churn turns insides out
whose center has shifted
whole world left us with it
earth flies too far in a day
falling in this endless way
million miles to yesterday



























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if ain’t too much
could is no does
will gets a shrug
am beats a was
plot not enough
arrive half done
go do get some
completion love
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S O L D
P O E M
© 2 0 2 2

—sold poem home— 

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