One thin dime

One Thin Dime

And "they" say there's 

No inflation 

WHY then 

Am I sitting here 

With just a few 

     Small grocery bags 

Filled with 

Nothing frivolous -

For so much money ?!!

This much money 

Used to 

PAY THE RENT !!

the whole rent !

With utilities 

     Included !

One block from the 

Beach 

In 

Long Beach -

But there's no 

     Inflation 

So,

"LET EM EAT CAKE" !!

I bought some flour -

I'm Going to make 

Some bread -

That will teach 'em !

But the oven's broken -

Has been these 

     Many years 

If I buy a new stove 

That's a $500 loaf 

     Of bread 🙁 !!

"Can't win for Losin'"

As my daddy used to say -

He also said 

"A day late and a dollar short" 

And 

"Once in a blue moon" 

And 

"A month of Sunday's" 

But then, 

He lived through the

Great Depression 

And WW2

So 

He must have known 

Something 

He said he started workin' 

When he was twelve

And an afternoon 

At the silent pictures cost

Ten cents

But that dime was made of 

Silver -

What was up 

     With that?

Purple Flame

The Writing Truck

The writing truck -

It may not be much

Parked beside the roadside 

     Such-

But I have my 

Coffee and 

My cookie and 

A notebook and a phone

     Such -

Writing tools are

     These 

Someday I dream 

To have a modern 

Motor home

Or at least some kind of 

Van 

In which to stand 

And move about

     And even 

Stretch out -

For a little nap 

Here 

     By the sea

But for now it

Will have to do -

At least the view 

Is something 

To write

About

The ocean gives us 

     Pause

          Wild and deep

If it had a tsunami here

     And now

I would be gone 

This life-song 

     Done

In a cataclysm of 

     Fishes

The writing truck

Conspiracies and Ghostly Lights

Watching utube 

Late at night 

Conspiracies and ghostly 

      Lights

Things on the moon 

That just aren't right 

And why are they not leaving us alone 

And letting us 

     Get on with it 

Did they cause all the major 

Wars 

And are they 

Still 

? 

Do they educate us 

To believe 

That  

Everything they say 

Is true 

Did they kill them 

One by one 

The ones who sought 

To set us free 

Beginning with the one 

They hung up 

On the tree 

The one who came 

To set us free 

Yes 

It makes my head spin 

To wonder 

And that's the fun of it 

Beats the heck out of regular 

TV 

Where nothing is a 

Mystery 

Except, of course, 

The Mysteries

Savoir Faire

Oh thou fighters and

Angry young men 

And those who wish to 

CONQUER THE WORLD !!!

Would you please learn to dance !

And have a glass of wine 

And hold your partner close 

And listen to the music 

It seems that the Tango takes 

Away the aggression -

Like grounding your electricity -

Your attention could then be given

To steps and hugs and 

Finesse

To moves and turns 

And interplay with 

Another 

War 

Would then seem 

Foolish -

As it is 

There are more important things 

To do 

With your precious time 

With your fleeting youth 

- Hold one another 

Move

Have politeness

And savoir faire

Much better than 

Bombs 

And tragedy