Merry Christmas I am grateful

Merry Christmas I am grateful,
For for my family and friends.
For all I have hurt I make amends.
Merry Christmas to the faithful.

Merry Christmas to my mom most of all.
Without her love I would surely fall.
Merry Christmas to those who have less.
But deep down we all are blessed.

Merry Christmas to the lost and lonely.
Merry Christmas to the best and the worst.
Merry Christmas to He who was first.
Merry Christmas to the one and only.

Merry Christmas to my mom.
If you were not listening.
Merry Christmas to my mom.
Her light is glistening.

  I am grateful for Donald Trump 2

I am grateful for Donald Trump.
Who made me realize the meaning of evil.
I am grateful for Donald Trump.
Made me believe that we had not hit rock bottom.

I am grateful for Donald Trump.
Made me know that all is lost.
I am grateful for Donald Trump.
Made me want to not care so much.

I am grateful for Donald Trump.
Mark Zuckerberg courted him.
And the truth is they are both phonies.
And they do not understand irony.

Because 'free speech' is more important than truth.
And yeah that's a loaded question.
I wish this sham of a democracy.
Had not so greatly worsened.

  I am grateful for Donald Trump

I am grateful for Donald Trump.
Who made me realize the meaning of evil.
I am grateful for Donald Trump.
Made me believe that we had not hit rock bottom.

I am grateful for Donald Trump.
Made me know that all is lost.
I am grateful for Donald Trump.
Made me want to not care so much.

I am grateful for Donald Trump.
Mark Zuckerberg courted him.
Because 'free speech' is more important than truth.
And the truth is they are both phonies.

I am grateful for Donald Trump.
For absolutely nothing.
I wish this sham of a democracy
Had not so greatly worsened.





















When it came to integrity.

Disingenuous is the word of the day..

Disingenuous is the word of the day.
Disingenuous is the game they play.
Disingenuous is the Republicans' creed.
No reason will they heed.

We know the President did it.
But the Republicans try to deflect.
And lie and misdirect.
They don't seem to know what we protect.

Call it unfair. Liar liar pants on fire.
That is their only defense.
To not have accountability.
Nor integrity or humility.

It's a big stinking mess.
They dropped a bomb on us.
Whoever smelt it dealt it.
That's their only defense.

Disingenuous. Mendacious.
Maybe I am naive for wanting to believe.
But this administration is shameless.
The Republicans' defense baseless.

Disingenuous is the word of the day

Disingenuous is the word of the day.
Disingenuous is the card the President plays.
Disingenuous is the sycophantic Trump worshipers'
Reason to genuflect every single day.

We know the President did it.
But the Republicans try to deflect.
And lie and misdirect.
Call it unfair. Liar liar pants on fire.

That is their only defense.
To not have accountability.
Nor integrity or humility.
Even Nixon did not suppress.

It's a big stinking mess.
They dropped a bomb on us.
Whoever smelt it dealt it.
That's their only defense.

Disingenuous. Mendacious.
Maybe I'm naive for wanting to believe.
But this administration is the worst we could conceive.
When it comes to morals they are shameless.

 I am so grateful

I am so grateful.
That is the meaning of life.
I am so great. Full.

I am thankful for the slaughter

My mom asked me today
If I was going to write
A Thanksgiving poem.
I told her I wasn't sure.

But I will try to oblige her.
I am thankful for the slaughter.
As should be every son and daughter.
This delicious bird, this martyr.

The slaughter began centuries ago.
The slaughter of the indigenous.
People who peacefully dwelled here.
Before we colonialists interfered.

I am thankful for the slaughter.
That brought us to the great melting pot.
Where we have abundant food and water.
But I am not proud.

 If rock n roll is dead..

If rock n roll is dead,
I will stay in my crypt.
I prefer guitars to beats.
I still love the organic.

I am the new old fashioned.
Prefer chords and melodies.
I celebrate rock n roll.
Because it's still got soul.

I love rock n roll.
Put it on my tombstone.
While there is amazing hip hop ,
Great rock makes my jaw drop.

Rock n roll just got commercialized.
Like everything else.
Rock n roll is a state of mind.
Rock n roll will never die.

Catholic Guilt

Catholic guilt is sediment. It's silt.
It collects in the unconscious.
It is a flower of wilt.
Catholic guilt is atrocious.

Catholic guilt is upon the world.
While priest rape boys and girls.
Catholic guilt is original sin.
Catholic guilt can no longer win.

We should all bet on a new horse.
Because this one got too loose.
And it really deserves the noose.
Catholic guilt is a farce.

I'm in love with Rachel Maddow.
To her I am merely a shadow.
She has so much integrity.
So much alacrity.

She has passion for the truth.
So much that lacks in,
Global politics.
She's so good at kicking against the pricks.

Rachel Maddow is our best candidate.
I wish she was on the ballot.
She does not denigrate,
Without a reason.

Rachel Maddow is worth believing in.
Rachel Maddow is where to begin.
If you are interested in the truth.
She is dare I say worthy of religion.

 It is harder to like someone than it is to love them

It is harder to like someone,
Than it is to love them.
We kind of love our enemies.
But we can never like them.

Love is about challenge.
As much as it is about peace.
We all love ourselves.
Whether we admit it or not.

Liking is the litmus test.
Most folks do not pass.
We love our friends.
For their flaws as much as for their success.

 He is not the reliable witness

He is not the reliable witness.
Because he is deep down in the thickness.
If he had integrity,
It would be in the 3rd or 4th degree.

He is offensive and a real prick.
Nothing good to say about him.
He is a master manipulator.
I do not mean that as a compliment.

This loathsome human being
Almost prevents me from breathing.
His self-interest is palpable.
His integrity laughable.

But that son-of-a-bitch
Pulls the strings.
And all of his admirers sing
His praises. To their detriment.

I love to rent library books

I love to rent library books.
But I don't have time to read em.
But I appreciate the connection.
With America's freedom.

Hell yes I am grateful!
In the land of the faithful.
That I can take out a book
For free with little scrutiny.

There is no greater moral.
We don't have to quarrel.
We are privileged and blessed.
In the land of dispossessed.

We live in a mighty nation.
We have always took victims.
To obtain our freedoms.
But we always somehow beat em.


























We have less censorship than most.
 Put that on your toast.
I am goddamned grateful.
My own kind of faithful.





Library books you have to take a look.

1984

1984: we are living there I swear.
It's all truth or dare.
And nothing is fair.
1984 is here.

We got a mad despot.
With a lot of hate.
And a rage on for enemies.
And only loyalty to his personal plate.

I am enraged and offended.
That man should be reprehended.
The head of state is a reprobate.
But he has a lot of friends.

But his friends are disposable.
Please God let him be disclosable.
The head of state has no integrity.
The head of state is a pretender.

1984 means disinformation.
1984 is a skewed state
Of obfuscation.
The current state of our nation.















He pulls out a rabbit
Yeah but he is a 





We live in the presence of a behemoth.
Who smells like a pestilence.










1984 who could ask for more
What we should all deplore.
But don't we all live in this space.

Jackie and Tali

Jackie and Tali.
I have always loved.
We were like hand in glove.
It was not folly.

Jackie and Tali 
Helped me feel solid.
In midst of my insecurity.
And I was mercury.

Jackie and Tali
Are beautiful women.
They know where I've been.
I am always beholden.

Validation is a mighty sword.
It might go against the Lord.
We all want validation.
We look for it everywhere.

Validation don't play.
Validation makes us feel.
Validation is for real.
Validation has too much appeal.

Validation is a harsh mistress.
Pretending to be in distress.
Her greatest crime being,
She wants us to be less.

 Only pets give unconditional love

Only pets give unconditional love.
The rest of us need to rise above.
We humans put conditions on our love.
We want to be accepted and understood.

Some of us want to be held.
Some of us want a mind meld.
Some of just want to be able to talk.
Some of us don't think about it.

But I think about it a lot.
I love my pets more than most people.
And they don't understand me at all.
But they love me just the same.

Too many shooters

Too many shooters.
And we got no prosecutors,
That are worth a damn.
Who really protects this land?

The shooters are mostly white men.
The shooters are a clan.
United by hate and lacking a plan.
Other than hate hate hate.

Social media gives them validation.
Free speech has become a breach.
If you practice what you preach,
It must be all alright in the end.

Where are morality and ethics?
Is this as bad as it gets?
Because the hate is fomenting.
And there seems to be no relenting.

I think most of the shooters are just cowards.
They're full of self-loathing but they also want glory.
Some of them actually want to take their own life.
But they want to be, for once in their life, a major story.

 Jesus Christ has become a popular expletive

Jesus Christ has become a popular expletive.
Perhaps because He is burning with pain.
Up on that cross. Knowing we all are lost.
Religion has become a mockery of faith.

Organized religion has always been about power.
The irony is it purports itself as a flower.
If you want to shove down the truth,
Make sure you have strong boots.

The truth will set you free.
If you don't take too many liberties.
Don't challenge the status quo.
Or you are headed for a tale of woe.

We live in terrible terrible times.
I am so glad to be alive.
Where I can express my opinion.
And have my own dominion.

We are just so ungrateful
We white over-privileged slobs.
We live in a land of abundance.
Though there a lot of shitty jobs.

I am grateful I can express my thoughts.
In this country all is not lost.
But also I am troubled.
Because our leader is befuddled.

I live in the United States.
Thank God for democracy.
A lot of people are less free than me.
I don't live in some shit-hole country.

 Paul Revere was the nexus

Paul Revere was the nexus.
Deep down in the solar plexus.
I am baffled by his success.
Because Paul Revere was a phony.

So many people shouted:The British are coming.
But he was the one who got credit.
Did you know that?
Paul Revere was an opportunist.

The midnight ride was made my hundreds.
But that guy just bragged about it more.
And he had friends by the score.
At the end of the day reputation means more.

Paul Revere was an average guy.
But his place in history cannot be denied.
He was the brave soldier against tyranny.
Forever and forever we need to believe.

There is a deep place with no name.
Where there are phonies.
And there are those with grace.
And somewhere we all forgot our place.

 I don't know what it means to be a good person

I don't know what it means to be a good person.
But I try to be one.
The last one who told me they were one
Was a phony and an idiot.


I do not think one can be a good person.
One can only strive to be one.
A good person is like immaculate conception.
It probably doesn't exist.

I think most people have good intentions.
But most people are selfish too.
I am still grateful to be imperfect.
I wish more of you idiots would admit it.

We're all imperfect but we all have merit.
All of our yearning is just the carrot.
The truth doesn't lie in the infinite.
The truth lies in every single minute.

For David Berman

I have no claims to his passion.
Though I have full enough of my own.
I have been made affected by his death.
And I know I am not alone.

He had a sterling silver vision.
He had immaculate precision.
He cut through the marrow.
To get to the sorrow.

David Berman felt the truth.
But it made him a recluse.
We must never forget to love.
Even when it is refused.

Yet we cannot love so passionately
That we become less than our own true self.
That is the great dilemma.
We cannot put that book back on the shelf.

For Sonic Youth part 2

Total trash tells the whole story.
They weren't looking for glory.
They were mercenaries for truth.
Sonic Youth.

Kim Gordon was  progenitor for the me too movement.
But she was thirty years ahead.
Sonic Youth is the truth and they are the end.
They should be your best friend.

Sonic vision. Reality through a prism.
Don't be afraid. There is darkness but also light.
They will throw you at the wall don't care if you fall.
Ultimately their cause is right.

For Captain Beefheart

There is a lot of wisdom.
In Captain Beefheart.
He speaks from another plane.
Another galaxy.

I admire his vision.
His brilliant lyricism.
The Captain is without peer.
Though he was just a visitor here.

He challenges norms.
That's for sure.
Captain Beefheart is a freak.
Totally unique.

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth.
They know the truth.
With their noise and confusion.
They know it's all an illusion.

I am listening to Goo.
And I don't know what to do.
Because I am so turned on.
I could almost say yes to anything.

Sonic Youth are the cool thing.
They always know what to bring.
They are oblivious and real.
They actually make me feel.

You gotta be grateful for time

You gotta be grateful for time.

There is precious little of it.

You cannot increase its limit.

In every second you must find a way to live it.

Time is the greatest blessing.
There is nothing better than its passing.
If you know and are not stressing.
All is well if you know its lessening.

Time is the great revealer.
That makes you suffer.
What can be clearer?
Sometimes pain is the healer.

Sunflower

She gives off so much light.
Beautiful and bright.
She is my mother.
Sunflower.

 I love all creatures great and small

I love all creatures great and small.
The ones with least brains most of all.
I look for beauty and I look for truth.
I often find one but seldom both.

I know it doesn't always make sense.
But I still seek the highest and best.
The ones I love are above reproach.
But they act like I am some kind of ghost.

I am looking into a window.
Not in a mirror.
I am shouting at her.
But she does not hear.

There is no one worthy of me.
That is plain to see.
I am a shadow, a specter.
Imperfect but I want to be better.

 New haiku

I am so grateful.
Nothing to complain about.
I am so great full.

I am not a bad person

I am not a bad person.
But I don't know what a good person is.
Mother Theresa wanted all to suffer.
But I bet she ate pretty well herself.

Suffering does not make you pure.
Suffering makes you hungry.
Suffering is our natural state.
But we can do better. I know I am no saint.

I do not always feed the homeless.
I have no illusions I am altruistic.
But there must be some higher truth
That does not make everything senseless.

 Haiku

You're no good for me.
With your kind of honesty.
I made a mistake.

I have truth in my repertoire.
I am not always trying to score.
I think I am a rare breed.
I do not always need to feed.

The obvious solution
Is to do what is right.
But might don't
Ever get it right.

I am a pawn to the system.
But I always try to resist them.
My value is not determined
By a stat on a spread sheet.

I am never boring.
I am always exploring.
Wish some girl got my genius.
I am so not obvious.

Birthday haiku

Always love yourself.
But keep confidantes also.
Believe in yourself.

 Time

Time is at a premium.
There is no back storage.
We have to squeeze it all in.
There is no second act in life.

Time is everything we can know.
But we don't know it at all.
Time puts us through our paces.
Time ignores suffering,
No matter the races.

Time is a selfish brute.
Time takes all our loot.
Time is unforgiving.
Time just keeps on living.

We are at the mercy of Time.
Deep down we are all sublime.
But Time don't pay no mind.
Time just chucks and jives.

De-evolution

We are all DEVO.
Those spud boys were in the know.
De-evolution is happening now.
And it's already too late.

Technology has made us drones.
We are driven by the machine.
We are less than clones.
Just cogs in an ad man's dream.

The corporations exploit us.
They are the new religion.
And everyone is forgiven.
If you know you are a mindless clone.

I want to transcend reality.
Because what I see I don't believe.
I believe what I can't see, hear, smell, touch.
Reality is much too much.

There is the letter of the law
And there is the spirit of the law.
Both of them have their merits.
Like dangling carrots.

The real problem is we are not consistent.
If the rules apply to all the same,
Then we are in a pretty fair game.
But the ones who hold the cards do not change.

I get frustrated by lack of equal rights.
I get frustrated that the game is rigged.
I get frustrated by unfair fights.
I get frustrated that no one truly gives.

The law is rigged for those privileged.
The law can be bent if you don't have a cent.
The law does not apply to those in power who lie.
The law does not apply to the one percent.

It is an amazing thing to believe.
It is a terrible thing to persecute
Those who do not believe what we believe.
Why do we kill what we don't understand?

Belief is key.You feel me?
There is just too much hate.
What defines us is our resources.
It does not matter if we are white or black horses.

There is no greater evil than the exploiter.
And we American, Christian, White fuckers
Are no better than those others.
Why do we kill what we don't understand?

I am appalled at violence toward strangers.
There is no greater danger
Than hate of your fellow man.
But we all want the best we can.

The real struggle is fighting the exploiter.
Corporations, most nations.
No one seems to not want more.
And the other is who we deplore.

I wanted you to be who I wanted you to be.
I failed to see you are a catastrophe.
I drink way more than you.
But I have more than a clue.

My words are always true.
More than I can say for you.
Wanted to put you on a pedestal.
But you are not that special.

I thought you were my fantasy
But you were not in reality.
You were just excited.
You were ignited.

Because I am a primal force.
And you were going through divorce.
You did not have a clue your skin
Was the space I wanted to live in.

'I love you but I don't like you'
Is a universal language.
It is much easier
To love than it is to like.

Who does not have flaws?
In the entire universe.
We love someone for their imperfectons.
Not the reverse.

Love is remote control.
Like is higher level stuff.
Like is after they left the room,
You still did not get enough.

I am the most amazing man you have never met

I am the most amazing man
You have never met.
You could follow me,
But it hasn't happened yet.

I am the real deal!
You feel me?
I am a spark,
About to explode.

I work so hard for my wages
I have passions and rages.
I am an undiscovered wonder.
All most women have yet to discover.

I love without measure.
I am someone to treasure.
I know about pleasure.
Also a man of leisure.

I thought I was on a cruise ship

I thought I was on a cruise ship.
Turned out to be the Titanic.
At first the waters seemed clear.
Then they went all rocky.

I got so sea sick.
I lost my bearings.
I threw up my insides.
I missed the firmament.

I'm still shaken from the ocean's roar.
You have no idea how she rang my bell.
A pleasure cruise turned into hell.
Nature is a bitch.

The fickle tides of fate.
Her love turned to hate.
She did such a number on me.
Wish I'd never sailed that sea.

Look for the value proposition

Look for the value proposition.
If you don't get what you want,
Just keep on fishin'.
It is not all about money.

Value is deeper than money.
Know what I'm saying honey?
Value defines us kind of like our soul
It is the greatest part of our whole.

Value is abstract.
It's not simple math.
Value is deep.
Money is cheap.

Look for the value proposition.
Make it your mission.
It's the hardest lesson.
It's the greatest blessing.

I need a parachute

I need a parachute.
Oh my God I'm falling!
I need a parachute.
Things she did just don't compute.

I need a parachute.
I need an absolute.
I need to be understood.
That girl is no good.

I need a parachute.
I never thought she would let me down.
I never thought she would make me a clown.
I never thought she would do me harm.

I need a parachute.
I'm in the wild blue yonder.
With too many things to ponder.
I need a parachute.

I need a parachute.
I thought we had a baring of souls.
But hers was on cruise control.
I need a parachute.

Disappointed is the new norm

Disappointed is the new norm.
No one is angry enough.
No one really has passion.
We just hope the party won't be a total disaster.


Everyone is disappointed.
Yeah let's just get over it.
If we can't make our world better,
We should stop complaining.


I know that our nation has sunk to a new low.
It feels we are falling into a bottomless hole.
I have a really strong beef with out current chief.
Please please God give us some relief!

But let's not be resigned.
Let's be grateful for the good we find.
Let's be grateful for the food we eat.
Let's be grateful for the place we sleep.

Disappointed is the new norm.
All hopes and aspirations still-born.
Dear God we want to feel inspired.
But we seem to have lost the fire.