from my new book of poems Coffee With the Bard: 2020 Blues My Dad passed on when I was very young. As you might expect, I was frightened...

By the Light By the light of this day may you find the best way to let go of the hurt and the hate By the light of this day don’t look...

I think it’s great that God resides in all of us but there are times when we need more specificity Like how is God in you the same or...

By the Light By the light of this day may you find the best way to let go of the hurt and the hate By the light of this day don’t look...

Ode to Brownie Dear Brownie Just a line to let you know you were the best dog ever lived because you were my dog because you were my...

To the Daughter We Named Brett Though you were aptly named according to your mom and me It was from a white man’s book which has troubled...

Signs of My Times Sign on my office door if I ever get an office “No Lying, Cheating, or Price Gouging Politicians of any ilk need not...

I’ve heard it said that time plays tricks on the mind. I think it more likely that the mind plays tricks with time. In my readings of...

A Modest Declaration I am not a white man Or any other color of Any other man And I will be damned If I let you call me ‘Other’ And...

By the Light By the light of this day may you find the best way to let go of the hurt and the hate By the light of this day don’t look...

“Be absolute for death: for either death or life shall be the sweeter” William Shakespeare From Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, The Long...

Good Morning Lord Good morning Lord your sunshine keeping promise to the moon Good morning hope Still here, though oft I bid you leave...

Rubber Bullets The Clown is in the candy store Wrecking havoc with all the toys The Beast still roams the countryside Still making all...

Rings So you discern the age of a tree by counting it’s rings, right And before Botox, we measured the age of a human by its  assortment...

Sophists and disciples of sloganeering full of moral skepticism and specious reasoning observe ‘You are not a drop in the ocean you...

When I’m in my cups- communing with my dark side I tend to view history with a jaundiced eye Wasn’t there a time when Millard Taft...

Don’t invite me to your looting parties Don’t even hint at who you think I should hate I ain’t listenin’ and I wouldn’t care if I was ...

The Beast Is at the Door The beast is at the door and we must fly or hunker down each in our separate lairs our enclaves of evolution ...

Book Ends I am not without hope as I surrender my freedom to enter this country-club prison. And hopefully I am not without humor. This...

Life in the Bunker-Mother’s Day We are in the throes of the first great SD Pushback. Businesses, Mayors and Governors are all amending...