Keeping My Mind 

(haiku)

I don't watch debates.

I watch rented films instead.

It's the healthy choice.

I don't talk to fools.

Life's too short to waste on fools.

I smile and move on.

I glance at headlines.
They rarely contain the truth.
They are meant to grab

what belongs to me,
my emotion and my mind.
They deserve neither.

Nothing's New Under the Sun

If you think you're an individual

saying something new and original
you probably have not heard it yet

in a sitcom, song or commercial.

The Never Ending Protest  

(haiku)

Protest all you want.

It's the American way.

It changes little.

Aftermath's the same.

Streets littered with broken glass

that cuts their own feet.

All it ever does
is increase the police force
they protest against.

*

In a white tower
they chuckle among themselves
and say, 'not again!'.

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.