The Big Waft

 

All smoke and savor 

Wafting up from our altars

Leaving ash behind

Barter

 

spare me your fiat

relationship currency

I want to barter

Sable

 

Donning the sable

Self righteous posturing gone

Malfeasance galore

Trace

 

start of day snuggle

finger tips wander delights

trace the path to more

Mirth

 

When the gift of girth

Delivers mountains of mirth

For all of its worth

Nascent

Nascent ruin for most

Mimicry of the lifestyle

Rich and shameless ruse

Blatantly picking pockets

Selling we can be like them

Rage

 

I turn today's page

To get on with tomorrow's

Blue plate du jour rage

Glimmer

 

A glimmer of hope

Not on the menu today

Just cold grumpy gruel

Remembrance

 

I have to remind

myself to remember the

things I've forgotten

Lace

 

Peek through lace curtains

Now tattered shredded and stained

See chaos inside

Greeezy

 

digital pucker

with musk bezos and zucker

potted flesh for them

greased with their filthy lucre

canned spam American scam

Proof

 

I guess this is proof

Bad ideas never end

They just hibernate

Hunches

 

How is glorified

confirmation bias sold?

In bunches of hunch.

Slide

 

recalling the view

when I started lifetimes slide

"wheeeee!" been quite a ride

Inerrant

 

where inerrant meets

aberrant that's vanity

shifting abhorrent

Fooled Again

 

The fool swayed on stage

While the fools lapped it all up 

"I don't need you fools" 

"I've fooled enough already" 

As the fools all fell in line

Labyrinth

 

walls made of our stuff

stacked in cattywampus rows

selfmade labyrinth

Crust

 

balanced on the crust

of economies pie chart

debt magnet pulls me

Intake

my breathing routine

creative on the intake

exhale productive

Freeze

freeze the frieze in time

captured on a viaduct 

or just graffiti 

Friend

 

Few that I call friend

Over time fewer still hear

Battles fought each year

Even when they were long lost

Still grateful to see you near

Snow

 

A fresh layer snow

What prints shall we leave this time

History tracks us

Sapphire Banter

 

My last found lover

Can seduce like no other

Her special allure

Turns my awkward blue chatter

To slutty sapphire banter

Draft

Groomed in the sixties

For draft in the seventies

Nation said, "Nevermind."

Glance

 

from a furtive glance

to glancing blow use the chance to view each askance

Moo Moo

 

the taste of a steak

cooked on my old charcoal grill

flavor moooooves  me still

Exposed

 

Expose film to light

Dark. Chemical bath. More light.

Develop photo

You're the film exposed to light

Be the paper of your life

No More Bunnies

 

events sadden me
scratch at my devices gate
but I refuse to
throw myself down rabbit holes
with no more bunnies to give

Still Alive

 

on the upside it's

not twenty five twenty five

so we're still alive

It's Begun

 

twenty twenty five
has begun the demise of
the beguine again

Rising to Set

 

Photo by Bruno Leschi on Unsplash

Endings all around
Beginnings around us too
Trick is which is which