Do You Drink Six A Day
Doing Penance
I dream about a church
or doing something bad
as that Martha Stewart
woman so being hounded
symbol of persecutions
for public exhibitions
Suddenly I begin to be
hounded by a fear idea
of being water starved
and in place of waters
taking cola or alcohol
How it does eventually
a Hounds of Heaven day
Creatures In Woodpiles
Run Our Lives
Why we have Leap Years
and lose the whole day
of our fourth February
never made sense to me
Or a board of electors
privileged politicians
this upstart Americana
upsetting proxy system
Denying calendar order
or US one man one vote
may not seem like much
always denied a system
favoring whims of Gods
The Slow Boat To China
Straight As An Arrow
To get so I could take
this name was an Emily
still is her character
coming out of the page
down through a history
discard heads of state
with admirals generals
or The Vicar of Christ
If we capture essences
of their father tongue
sans a tremendous gain
or thunder in the room
tup heavenly commodity
The Genius Is All Over
If You See It
Women children or dogs
do determine character
He said then disproved
due other circumstance
I remember ee Cummings
Robert Penn Warren Ike
Dylan Thomas for a way
they stood up to lives
chiseled out the stone
of which they are born
One poem made a Shelly
a Keats of our history
is all we need to know
I Was Soundly Sleeping
My Attention Was Drawn
I was enjoying regular
beats of the new heart
bottom half that seems
good sixty each minute
Dreaming the same time
the body seems regular
except for a fast beat
of upper auricle areas
Dr Greenberg will slow
my upper to meet lower
heart which in harmony
waits tobe coordinated
Should give a new life
Heart Controls My Body
Rest Of My Life
Surfaces with contents
remain almost anything
no matter what a dream
had started with doing
my day before ablation
What makes bottom fast
enough to catch my top
so memory can enter in
Elements of situations
overpower a permanency
that contains the best
elements the long life
can guarantee a living
Everybody Pray With Me
This My Special Day
Preparation Yesterdays
The Beatles should say
to this man used to be
is fit for a butterfly
Two masses in the morn
Catholic and Episcopal
ML King Rollins Chapel
Shabazz Cook or Coffin
this suitable memorial
is the indelible spell
a Dryfhout Frothingham
night and Dr Greenberg
another ablation today
Try To Live New Chance
Of Life Given To Me
After reaction to drug
combinations many have
we decided to just use
aspirin blood thinners
to get us through this
My blood pressure runs
about 120 steady usual
heart beating about 52
Dr Greenberg worked my
atriums back to normal
looked he was fatigued
has done great service
of he who trusts faith
Beginning Confirmation
When It Is Time
One by one your scales
have dropped from eyes
and confused adversity
finally a ray of light
shows God this mystery
as if we can ever know
why He waits this long
to take us up with him
free of all evaluation
to an only form a life
at last full of loving
for those of new faith
born from my beginning
Jesus This Last Leader
Was the First
PrepSchool politicians
just as well have keys
to my future existence
as a prepSchool doctor
ignore it at our peril
and we do it every day
putting faith in magic
of bigger corporations
who use or wear us out
What about serendipity
The prize we came here
To collect they owe us
We saw that was a scam
Come Down With Whimper
To the End
Watching US television
it is becoming obvious
money rules this world
Doctors have a control
device dispensed drugs
keep everything proper
who opened the windows
There goes opportunity
their one final chance
to have the stage door
finally opened to them
only a prayer left now
for blank staring eyes
See The Smell Of Death
In A Single Flower
Send two hundred notes
out to that our people
whom are about to bear
false witness to a God
Is one loyal soul able
to understand the note
while the unholy clash
of warriors goes forth
of lips dripping blood
of metal lives twisted
into a graduation song
A This America Or What
An Alfred P Neuman tup
My Money Wins Election
To My World Of Men
Bush and Dean are both
good physical specimen
there the picture ends
in baseballs or oilmen
his father shaping him
into Texas businessman
or Dr Dean with a plan
for all his fellow man
belong to a human race
Bush men belong to him
and the US Corporation
by which weall lassoed
Gross National Product
We Condemned To Repeat
The Passing Parade
It is not wasted times
to see a Hepburn movie
a Golden Globe sublime
ancient Forsythe sagas
place in US confidence
we adore rich and weak
the rot of this system
the flotsam and jetsam
of an empire gone awry
Show what is left over
from wreckage going on
of centuries in a past
and we can do it again
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