Liquid Yoga

Taking hot wet soak in quiet tub
thinking right thought right action
the four-way walk down eight-lane path
my slipstream slideslips
into reruns of Deep Space Nine
and Ferengi ear sex
which name won’t come
so I fall from meditation
into trying to remember “oo-mox”
with my small who-man lobes

– Smith, 10.30.2016

Last three years I’ve bought two cds, both by Leonard Cohen – last year’s live album Can’t Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour, and this week’s You Want It Darker.

You Want It Darker is an album by an old man who’s lost most his voice chewing on death, age, and God’s inhumanity to man.

It is a good album. Each song makes me think, nod in appreciation, understanding.

His voice this time around is whisper weary, more talk-sing than sing-sing, but it works well with the words.

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Now Then

It’s now
with a lot of later creeping in
stuffed with earlier to-do’s
and things done
which add up
to balance that
subtract this
hedge the fudge factor
flux remainder
leaving now on track two
second aisle
by white ticket fence
enclosing lean green yawn
of two wives and half a dog
the log lady sawing out back
her twin peaks of coffee and cherry pie
way past then

– Smith, 10.28.2016

Three more poems and I’ll have limped through our 5-poet October 2016 poem-a-day-a-thon. Been a hard slog since the words weren’t willing.

pastimperfect

Philosophy 103

There’s right
there’s wrong
and there’s is

– Smith, 10.26.2016

dba Smith

Ain’t getting wiser
just more weary
wary of price on appeal

Don’t do small talk
not even tall talk very well
on my way to chalk

No crowd appeal
but in word and life image deed
I be real deal

And that my friend
with a buck-seventy-five
will get me a cuppa joe

Plus a wife and cat
and a place to hang our hat
while we glimpse the glow

– Smith, 10.24.2016