All That Matters 

(haiku)

Though out my whole life

I thought all these things mattered

when they never did.

My need to be right.

My quest for love and money.

Change above all else.

Now in my old age

I can without a doubt see

none of that matters.

*

Final consensus.
All that we think important
rarely ever is.

Photo Album

It's all soon forgotten.

Whole chapters amount to nothing.

A selfie here, a selfie there,

A still life collection 

that's suppose to mean something.

Dead eyes stare back 

from glossy paper, screen or coffin. 

Frozen in time these glimpses,

Added together resemble

A dream we thought we were living.

Retirement

 (haiku)

I wake up happy.

I turn on television

and despair sets in.

I turn off the set

and turn on my computer.

New despair begins.

I go to the store
and then to the library.
I wander a lot.

I have resources.
I could go around the world
but I never will.

I go to sleep tired.

I dream of days of glory.

I wake up happy.  

So Much Anger 

(haiku)

I just don't get it.

Anger has no place in me

for things I can't change.

I walk to the store.

People will usually smile

as I walk on by.

People look happy.

They might live in a bubble

but they look happy.

I turn on TV

and then all of a sudden 

I see the anger.

Great Delusion 

(haiku)

They should put warnings

on every damn commercial.

Hazardous to Health.

*

Politicians too
should come with warning labels.
Hazardous to Brains.

*

Our cup overflows

and the result is a mess

we'll never clean up.

How It Happens

You spend a few decades dumbing the masses down 

with commercialism, hi-tech, special effects and wishful thinking 

and we the people, the government, will choose representation 

that best reflects our ignorance.

Stupid By Choice

(haiku)

Stupid is like snow

balls rolling down steep inclines

gaining momentum.

My only real hope.

Stupid doesn't become crazy

as it gathers speed.

But that's stupid too

because stupid is crazy

when it need not be.