The veterans are ready, Here, again, Making graves On the county face. . These are our heroes, Who go on shooting sprees On their weekends off, Coiled springs outside the library In the hot sun, . They just saw that sun Going round yesterday, Too, But still can’t seem to think of what to do […]

The only true crime in life Is refusing to take help When it’s there — . Refusing growth, Refusing splendour When it becomes Your identity’s neutralization, . The peonies by your window sill Grown lonely Before Your crosseyed seance with the rain.

.. “Mother Earth Mother Earth Mother Earth Take pain away” – Jesu … South Bend is unique, in a way, because you go out into nature not only to escape the homogenous masses (not that South Bend really has homogenous masses), pollution and unwanted noises, but to escape aggression, too, from humanity itself. I found […]

Caution Is the primary Human preservation mechanism, . And the primary human Vice.

I would see all things renewed After getting Just that little smile, . I’d see the miraculous eyes of the Blond bartender, Feeling the horror At the way her body had filled in, It was those same dark eyes Caressing moments of the esoteric But always to deluge, Always to cascade on to me, Massaging […]

A perfect picture Of panorama possibility Unfolds before us In this life Like roses Buoying holiday cheer’s Chasm between storms and The looming rush Of this infernal quagmire We call hope, So at the end of the day It’s like Michael Jackson said: “Don’t stop ‘til you get enough.”

The oeuvre of beauty Glows lightly To find fault in the darkness, To seek out its entrails and there blaspheme pure miracle. . Find a way, Then, To respect yourself, Because that is the only way, Even . As it seems antithetical, These little glowing pantomimes everywhere Seeming to exude such poignance, Bless even them […]

When we get together, And we’re smiling, We’re realizing our true potential, And it’s nothing like The money man said, In fact I don’t see him anywhere, He’s up in his high rise, The last to hear when anything’s happening.

So in interacting with the women, We find also That the women are in revealing clothing In the workplaces As if Pulling the last card from their hand . And I’m not sexist, I’m not the one to say that this was their only card All along, . But maybe it’s the one we gave […]

No opinion could ever be as good as pedagogy, and at the fertile basin of pedagogy are genuine human interest, and genuine human kindness. The desire to help is the primary human quest, and should always preclude, and precede, semantics of right and wrong.