Loop

If you stop
and take a moment
to think about things
they will rush past
in a dizzying stream
and leave you
far behind.
So you must
rush onwards
and keep moving,
because
you cannot worry
about changing anything
and worrying
changes nothing.

Sleep-Eyed

On those mornings
when you are up
before you want to be
no one else’s injustice,
no matter how real,
will seem as great.
Lately,
these mornings
are too many
in number.
How cruel,
what coffee
cannot cure.

Patchwork

Just as I am drifting
off into sleep
I hear the voices
of the doctor’s,
loved-ones
and others
who insist
I take a pill
for this,
or that,
that I lose weight
that I think
of my health
and I chuckle
into my pillow.
“Please, ”
I say,
to their
out-stretched
arms,
“don’t interrupt,
I’m in a nice
tight
spiral”.

Inane

Is there anywhere,
in this world
(in any language,
any tongue)
that a woman
isn’t talking
at a man
who is
slowly

walking

away…

nodding…

… pursued?

Precip

The clouds
are moving in
and your rain
will come.
The masses
will cry out
“Injustice!”
and sob
over a lost
summer.
I will not.
I welcome change.
I always have.
It has forever
happened
to me:
rarely
by me.
So,
I am used
to it.