THE YOUNGEST


Dad
By accident
I touched a fly

It landed
On the ground
It was dead

It wasn’t afraid
Perhaps it wanted
To kill itself

HOMESTEAD


The northern lightning
Creates music
A humming bird
Visits my tree

COLLEAGUES

Large crowds
Like cattle gone mad

But these two
Seem willing and able

That place in the distance
On the beach
Where the hotel
Waits by the water

The fountain says:
They’re good looking

Industrious women
Inviting us
Waiting for us

RX


Anti-inflammatory
Is what the Doctor ordered

She has a
Giant radiant smile

A petite body
And the energy
Of a teenager

Anti-inflammation
An exercise of life

Ortho dispensers
Killers of illness
Diminishment of growths

Puffiness & silliness
Of swollen minds
Inflammation of the environment
Diseases of the rich

This is the
Gym of love

BAD BREATH


The girl
Got very close to me
And began to blow

This was somewhat
Of a surprise
I did not know her

She looked
Like an upper class girl

She was pretty
And fit the
Malcolm X Equation