Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

no body knows
sweet mystery
still life goes on

they call it 'it'
a many-sided entity
do you have it?

I got it late in my life
Dupont circle
in ninety seventy two

forty two years
I been riding this ego trip
every round goes higher higher


I took a hit
no turning back
this is it

a small slug
finds refuge in my shower
welcome no longer

nightmare alley last night
pursued and pursuing
woke wondering if I was
the victim or the 'perp'
was I a woman or a man
or a slug
trying to write Japanese poetry

my bicycle saves
the very best times
for me

symbols of meaning
clog up my pathway
time to wake up

"roaring dreams
in perfectly silent mind"*
I love to ride at night
in the hours before the world wakes up


*Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

Jeez, Jack. How many screen names do you have now? Do you really need another one? Sorry, but that's it. No more. You have enough. It confuses people. Seriously. Thanks!

I must have needed one more
from here on this will be my only one
sorry and thank you for your tolerance

if it is not too much trouble could you delete the other user names, if not please ignore them. I will be sticking with this one.

thank you for studio eight

I'm not going to delete the other names. Anyway, no big deal. Sorry. I shouldn't have said anything.

Ok
I will be sticking with this one.

now back to the haiku board already in progress

thank you, sorry about all this. No more user names. Till death do me part

hangnail
yesterday's frustration
powerless today

the will to powerlessness
to win by losing
rational addictions

a germ of conscience
slowly matures
and seeks companions