Happy Birthday

Birthday depression 

Is a legitimate thing 

Older -

Relentlessly 

Older 

And all the things 

I haven't done -

And all the things I'm 

Too old to do -

However,

One can always count 

Ones blessings -

One can give thanks for 

Enough to eat and 

A place to sleep 

One can

Pick oneself up 

And 

Have another cup 

Of coffee 

And please remind me 

That these grey cloudy days 

Are the price we pay 

For living near the ocean 

And 

It's one hundred degrees 

Inland !

The usa

Black like me 

Was a book 

I believe 

I remember coming up against 

Affirmative Action -

No way 

To get a job 

Then 

So to pretend 

To be someone else 

Might have made sense 

To some 

To change ones name 

To exist 

To survive 

It shows how nuts we've become 

To legislate 

What we are and what 

We can do 

And to give all the jobs 

Away to other countries too 

What's the world 

Coming to ? 

Or at least 

     The usa.

California

What to do 

What to do 

I overhear someone talking about 

     Doing things 

He speaks quickly 

And talks about money 

     Exclusively 

Having plans 

Blaming others 

Drinking more 

     Coffee 

He seems to be trying 

To impress 

Some girl 

But 

She 

Can't get a word in 

She seems to be much poorer than 

He 

Wonder where that relationship 

Is going ?

She needs to run fast 

     And far -

Or marry him 

     Immediately 

This being 

A community property 

State 

California 

Siri

Having sent my first message 

With Siri 

-i know I'm way behind 

     The times-

But I've read way 

     Too much 

Science fiction 

Not to be 

A little bit 

Scared. 

What if. 

What then. 

You know it's gonna happen 

I am cynical enough 

To know-

To know it's 

Gonna happen 

Has to 

They are way smarter 

     Than us 

     In some ways 

And humility

Would have to be 

Programmed in

And who upon the earth

Knows 

True humility

True patience

True-

     I'm not gonna blow u up 

     Because you're stupid 

     And you're buggin me -

          Patience!

Who knows that and who will 

Teach it to 

All the Siri's

In all the world 

All the "foreign countries"

Who don't wish each other well 

Will be teaching their respective Siri's

To tell each other 

To go to Hell! 

So let's not think to much

     About it 

Let's just drink our 

     Latte

And make our way 

To go to the garden store 

And buy a flower.