elementary

(haiku)

like raising children,

you tell them this will happen

and they ignore you

then when it happens

they can't believe it happened

and get mad at you

*

when it is proven

they are totally inept

and ineffective

they will turn on them

who whole heartily believed

every word they said

four years in

(haiku)

i wanted substance,

a depth of understanding

that could rival mine

but when i arrived

i saw learned men playing

on the monkey bars

and great orators

lip syncing nursery rhymes

for they had no voice

i saw small people

hunting down smaller people,

both scurried like mice

and i knew somehow
the world i was once fond of
no longer exists

daily haiku

surfing the channels

commercials on all but one

the one i don't watch

not like in movies

where they turn on the TV

right to the right show

but we have to wait

till the commercials are done

more and more we wait

*

i don't like titles
they always seem so contrived,
so after the fact

in the quiet of old age

at seventy you wonder 

what kind of monster lives in the cellar

making itself known

as it slowly ascends dry squeaky stairs

ever so slowly it creeps,
a limp, a groan, every breath a wheeze

and you try to ignore

this thing that might be coming for you

just a thought

(haiku)

very well could be

a high tech society

cannot be governed

by low tech ideals

whenever it's attempted

chaos will erupt

*

jesus said it best,

new wine into old vessels

causes them to burst

same as it ever was

i look back through my life 

which is all i seem to do in my old age 

and i relive these memories 

that unfold like chapters or episodes 

lacking a happily ever after

and i think to myself 

if only i knew then what i know now 

but if that were true 

shouldn't i be a lot happier right now? 

invasion of the money snatchers 

(haiku)

like a sci-fi film

sometimes we're allowed to see

thru their human guise

these reptilian,

cold blooded money snatchers

robbing the world blind

for prosperity!

they always insist and hiss,

it's for our own good

like we're one of them
but they are out for their own
and we are the prey