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NUTS!

My wife’s first husband,
God rest his engineer soul,
collected nuts,
bolts too.
Boxes and boxes and boxes of them,
Big ones and small ones,
Long and short.
Some too small to see,
.some you couldn’t lift.

 Boxes and boxes of nuts and bolts
From Ur and China, the Indus valley.
From Babylon and Atlantis,
The caves of Altimira,
 
Luxor, Tella Marna and
 
Katmandu.

A  Global museum of nuts and bolts,
Splendid in conception,
Flawless in execution,
A tribute to mankind
and the man
 
who collected it all.

So, why is it now
That in my twenty year tenure
as his successor
as Maintainer
Of Household
Things,
that I have never
even once, found one
Of the damned
things, ever,
that fit anything
I’ve tried to fix?

 

QUANTUM MECHANICS

The dichotomy you say
Is between mind and matter
I don’t mind 
‘Cause it doesn’t matter
Marxists say 
that it’s all matter, but
I think that 
is senseless chatter
‘cause physicists say 
there is no matter.
There is no chicken on an empty plate
but there is still energy to heat it
unfortunately
there is 
no one 
to eat 
it

   

 

MILLENNIUM

Two thousand years
we have waited
for the mansions
of the Lord.
Walling in gardens
hoping to still
the sound of
the hammering!
hammering!
hammering!
Of encroaching shacks
of hell.

 

 

BEHOLD!
(Last Christmas of the Millennium)

Behold I bring you tidings of great cheer:
Burdines announces 60% mark downs
in the biggest after new year’s sale ever!
And ABC has discounted overstocked wine,
while Publix offers buy one get one free 
on everything.
Inflation is lowest in 25 years,
Interest rates hold steady,
Employment is near full,
And three wise economists predict 
more of the same
next year.
And we, tired of front page disasters
and the tabloid prose of
City and State,
tend our stocks by night
under a giant star
courtesy of your Chamber of Commerce.

 

WEEKLY, WEEKLY, WEEKLY

Monday.....Tuesday.....
Next July!
Time is fleeting
I don't know why.

Wednesday.....Thursday.....
Friday night!
I resist its passing
with all my might.

Saturday.....Sunday.....
Monday again!
I'm trying hard,
but I just can't win.

 

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