36 Downed In A Chinook
16 Gone Forever
He liked eggs Benedict
or bought penny stocks
had worked Wall Street
took us to Hanover Inn
back home after winter
Can you forget Stanley
his yearly flea market
ways of meeting people
Nature has her methods
loves creep up on ways
get used to being here
we take it for granted
Gone like a helicopter
Can You Say You Are An
Addiction
We can adjust our body
to reset time machines
that run more smoothly
and in the unconscious
hearts lungs and blood
functions by my brains
clue in the activities
for this entire system
Drugs and dependencies
ignore control centers
and do their own thing
creating Frankensteins
Half populations today
What I Expect From You
All The Time
Wear my Holter Monitor
is on every politician
recording my heartbeat
just as though are his
Cannot talk Republican
to a Democrat in there
listen to US heartbeat
on your halter monitor
Hear your polls report
majority of the people
distrust your judgment
all of this US beating
is the sound of living
We Want To Be A Writer
No Problem
We read somewhere life
has a beginning middle
and then comes the end
is it really so simple
Consider my last dream
cannot go into traffic
until you ride shotgun
then kids throw stones
as I ride into the sun
That could be an essay
of current college ilk
or stir in a sex scene
become new US novelist
Sit Back and Enjoy The
Last Ride Home
Forget everything else
All I need to do is OK
have reached the point
spiritual labor reward
on earth has been mine
since back in nineteen
84 before the Bush War
A Christian Armageddon
will be many Big Bangs
before our whimper end
A Mass Destruct Weapon
to get rid of all evil
was built into our DNA
With Life In His Hands
He is God
So how a cut or bruise
older heal more slowly
so young boy and knife
trying to be terrorist
flatten tires kill car
blood and air are life
if kept under pressure
death a surgeon or boy
make one fatal mistake
I live in daily terror
uncontrolled air blood
in my one night dreams
called life end it all
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