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24 Sep 2023

mass extinction


tipping points abound
like dress shoes on a clown
overpopulated ideas
doomed to fail
over a matter of time

we know this
because of history & science
and the indisputable fact
human ingenuity
knows no bounds
—as a collective
creating its very own
artificial demise

meanwhile the crows
keep learning
at an accelerated pace
conspiring to clean up the mess
once handed over the keys





september two thousand twenty-three
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20 Feb 2013
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the scourge next door


when a rabbit moved in next door
and started posting personal ads
about wanting to have kits
i just knew it was time to move on

i didn’t want to meet him
so i stayed inside
and instead spied
through various windows
up and down the split foyer

his mail order bride
arrived via yellow cab
and sauntered up the walk
leading to the front door
confetti raining down
from a second story dormer

it doesn’t take long
for the little ones to mature
once born into their
new home blind and naked
and helpless
and before you know it
babies are hopping everywhere
and not any backyard fence
will keep them at bay

years after getting the hell out of there
i heard it didn’t take much longer
before the entire neighborhood
evolved into a gangland
patrolled by killer bunnies


february two thousand thirteen
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Posted in Animals, In the City, Poetry and tagged , , , , , ,
23 Aug 2012
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a world goes round


gravitational forces
make the world go round
geometrically perfect
and mathematically sound
innocently conceived
of violent explosions

woe are the children
born into a whirlwind
of poverty and starvation
whose land neither spins
nor revolves with beauty
or compassion or truth

sad is the soldier
dying in a battlefield
dark clouds circling above
the beauty of the world
just a passing idea
taught in a classroom

man and his machines
compete for dominance
racing across the skies
and testing mother nature
with all the tangible wealth
this blue jewel can muster



august two thousand twelve
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Posted in Nature, Poetry and tagged , , , , , , , , , ,
04 Jul 2012
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Racing Toward the End


What goes on down here sometimes doesn’t make sense;
seems we’re all running around doing a bunch of nothing,
like buying Gold or picking up a 30 pack on the way home.

Just about everyone’s got an agenda these days;
some like to push theirs where they don’t belong,
others keep them propped to their ear when behind the wheel,
while the silent majority keep it to themselves
like it’s some big secret.

Everything is so plugged in that when the electricity fails
chains of events lead to even bigger headlines
such as “Man loses dog.”

Now that we number seven billion it’s high time
we call back Einstein, maybe even Darwin,
ask them to figure out how to get out of this mess
before something really serious happens.



july two thousand twelve
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Posted in Dogma, In the City, Poetry and tagged , , , , , ,

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