On the darkside of the street . . .

Downstreet 2008

the jungle

out there in the concrete jungle
warrior's brave must all men be
they live until they make a bungle
until they do they're wild and free

tribes and turf and boundary lines
their oath is penned in blood
they wheel and deal and strut and steal
and play the game of gangsta stud

a scary place by night or day
glass and concrete steel and trash
Some dude somewhere has a gun
the side walk is their final crash

2008

The manwith no ears ...

Puzzling Puzzle, the man with no ears.

On Aging

If you never
grow up,
you'll never
grow old . . .

Soft stripes

Soft Stripes 1996

Stripes

Buyin' time and payin' dues

sometimes i don't know why
sometimes i don't know why
why i stay with you
the queen of blues

someone should tell me
someone should tell me
what makes you like you is
what you is is just bad news

but who would know better'n me?
but who would know better'n me?
the way you are
'less they standin' in my shoes

on a train and cain't get off
on a train and cain't get off
here i am, solid lost
buyin' time and payin' dues

1976
a poem found in an old book

Reclining nude

Reclining nude. Life study 2008

Fate and Time

The moving finger writes,
and having writ
moves on.
Nor all your piety and wit
can call it back,
or cancel half a line,
nor all your tears
wash out a word of it.

Omar Khayyam
The Rubiyat

The pink pig

Pauline's pet pink pig 2004

Mademoiselle

inner sanctum
where i dwell
with my lovely
mademoiselle

peaceful mornings
special spell
secret things
i'll never tell

early colors
soft pastel
something beckons
woman smell

happy in our
private cell
you and i
my mademoiselle

1993

A barn near Kilgore, Texas

August afternoon at 102 degrees. 1979

when you gonna let your long hair down
before you fly clear out of town?
when you gonna tell me its all over
before you find that four-leaf clover?
when you gonna run and disappear
before the rains come back next year?
when you gonna pack your precious things
before you see what next month brings?

lines i wrote and didn't
title or date. . .

The sighting . . .

The sighting . . . . 2008

Doing blue . . .

Doing blue...for you. 2008

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