A strange place to write
Filled with tired faces and loud voices
But sheltered corners
They’re not wise like us
They’re foolish and won’t listen
Someday they’ll wake up
You need to make choices
About where to spend your time
You can’t do it all
They’re all so impressed
With how I think on my feet
Can’t they do the same?
It’s feast or famine
It’s absence or abundance
Never in between
You know you will pay
For making such dumb comments
As if you’re in charge
I have a puppy
His name is Milo the Dog
Milo has blue fur
Some things make me proud
Of other things I’m ashamed
To him they’re the same
Marks on the whiteboard
Asking how to spell haiku
Wants to be like me
Truth lives near the line
Sometimes short, sometimes past it
Never far away
There’s a certain thrill
That comes with crossing the line
And a price to pay
Went to Urgent Care
Daughter fell and broke her foot
It was not my fault
Now he does not care
After pushing me to act
He’ll hide in his weeds
We just keep eating
As waistlines grow we care less
Slow slide to old age
He’s seven years old
Cried at loss in first chess game
Did he think he’d win?
While the company
Besieged on all sides was forced
To stop playing cards
Up in Fond du Lac
A union shuffled the cards
And played the same hand
Call me Ishmael
And other opening lines
Beginnings matter
There’s no money left
In our wallet, bank, country
Let’s just print some more
We live in a world
Where madness is kept holy
And crime entertains
A river of pee
My daughter said. And the poops
Are going swimming
I like what it means
Much better than how it sounds
My wife’s the reverse
Bought a new laptop
Had my pick of nine colors
It’s small, light and fast
How does someone stop
Doing the thing everything
Else must depend on?
Don’t want to do this
Not now and never again
But I can’t just quit
Keep it to yourself
The world won’t accept your search
It will just harm you
Why am I writing?
Is it so others can read?
Or so I can live?
Look! There’s the rhino!
Sky glider is so much fun
There it is again!
A cry in the night
Heard between sleep and waking
Bad dreams trouble all
Don’t come here to learn
I come here to listen and
Decide what comes next
Best meeting ever
Team did great job all around
Now get back to work
