Poem: The Mayday Parade

The Mayday Parade

We carve our obsessions

On the backs of living room walls

Then send out our smiles

In the mayday parade.

Carefree and wild,

            The children run and play

On the green

At the scene

            Of the mayday parade.

Don’t you dare tremble,

            Don’t shed a tear

We wave with clenched fists

Grit our teeth in rictus

As dusk settles down on

            The mayday parade.

Poems: Bookstore and Reset

Bookstore

I step into

The                  Of the

Boundaries      Bookstore

And I am in pain

Because of all the stories

I cannot have

            here

Reset

With my computer’s dying breath

It says it’s shutting down;

I feel the same.

Poem: Teddy Bear

Teddy Bear

You ask me, when we were little-

“What makes you feel better

When you feel bad?”

I said my teddy bear,

Ragged and torn as it was.

I asked about yours in return

And you said, “It’s you.”

Now I have to decide

Whether I am more or less ragged

Than my teddy bear.