Brown Shoes

I’m not always - in disarray

It’s just my thoughts - that think this way

And sometimes I wear brown shoes –

 

I don’t always - drive erratic

There’s so much clutter - in my attic

I avoid watching the news –

 

From a distance - I do not lack

Be sure though to - stand farther back

If I could sing it’d be the blues –

 

When I have gone - and you remain

You’ll think perhaps  - this guys insane

Conceivably the booze –

 

How crazy would - you have to be

Of all the things - to read and see

This is what you choose.

 

 

 

Evil Thoughts...

 

It's in the shadows where they live

Tis always take and never give –

 

Never in the light of day

Can’t be found where people pray –

 

Under rocks they slither quick

Scatter when the lightswitch clicks –

 

Down an alley dark and dank

Cannot mutter please or thank –

 

Only noticed I decree

When they’re saying, “Vote for me.”

 

 

 

 

The Swing

 

 

The old worn tire

rests quietly against the far wall

just below the dated calendar

whose picture was just too

alluring to be covered over

by tomorrows –

 

Miles of tread long gone

spread thin along asphalt trails

and scraped along curbs

tucked deep into history

as a bookmark wedged firmly

into the binding of life –

 

It is as if age itself

were leaning there against the wall

void of bent rim and

deflated of all adventures

it’s last hope of usefulness

holds out a mighty limb

in the front yard.

 

 



Film at 11:00

 

I met a whiskered kitten

who spoke kindly of a rat –

A lady in the music store

was trying on a hat –

The trumpet she was playing

had a little valve for spit –

High atop her curly hair

the hat would never fit –

Wally had a window

that he carried around the store –

And spent the hours of his day

hoping to see more –

I skipped a pond across the stone

it wasn’t hard to do –

People thought me crazy

but Wally saw it too –

Reporters came from far away

to interview the cat –

The one with little whiskers

who spoke kindly of a rat –

Cameras, lights and cue cards

were running down the aisle –

A little mouse tail wiggled

from a whiskered kitten smile -

The lady with the too tall hair

fainted to the floor –

Wally told the ambulance

to hurry to his store –

A medic with a stethoscope

helped the mouse retreat -

Though it wasn’t easy running

with saliva on his feet –

Breaking news at 5-o-clock

some actress got divorced –

Right after these commercials

a pond that changed its course.