Thursday, December 20, 2012

The Night Before The Winter Solstice

So, it's raining
and dark
now, on the night
before the winter solstice,
and tomorrow morning
at five
I have to drive
my neighbor and his wife
to the airport,
and I am doing it
as a good thing to do
because my neighbor needs help
and I thought
that I would help out,
but it could
get cold tonight
and the water on the roads
could freeze
and I could be driving
on the freeway,
which I don't normally do,
on ice,
so since tomorrow
is the day of the so-called
end of the world,
I'm a little nervous,
but, I don't know,
we'll see
what happens.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Peace Pipe

So, this morning
I was thinking
about Native Americans
because I practice
some sort of
Native American spiritual practice,
and so I thought
about the peace pipe
and since I have a pipe,
I thought I needed to know
what goes in it,
so I looked up Peace Pipe
on the internet
and found out
about all kinds
of herbs
that went into the mix,
so I thought
that I would go out
and buy them,
but later I thought,
why don't I just put
what I have
in my peace pipe,
then it would be
my own special blend,
so I did that,
and I'm smoking tonight.

Friday, December 7, 2012

What A Homosexual Is

When I was
a really young kid,
my family
went out
to see a movie,
and it was
a more adult movie
than a little kid
like me
should have seen,
so I was sitting there
not understanding it
and eating my popcorn,
when the word
"homosexual"
popped up
in the dialogue
in the movie,
so I turned
to my Dad
and asked him,
"Dad...What does
homosexual mean?",
and he replied,
"Men who like men"
so I said,
"Oh."

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

The News From My House

My sleep
is usually broken
into two or three parts,
and I can't sleep
for very long periods of time,
so this morning
I woke up tired
with that awful feeling
of morning tiredness,
and this time
it didn't pass,
so I tried to exercise a little,
but that didn't help,
so I just waited
and waited
and waited,
and then at about two
in the afternoon,
the feeling was gone,
so I proceeded
to do my spiritual thing
and my exercise thing
and my art thing,
and to my amazement,
I finished everything,
even though
half of the day
was a complete waste.