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High Jumper

Muse jettisoned from

inter-cranial cockpit

absent without leave.

Fear

Fear 
demands
that you toss 
the could have had
avoid all the should have’s
not matter what the price don’t make 
a fuss.

It glares through your eyes
and into your brain
cheering you on
discouraging you from 
drawing undue attention to it 
or making waves.
It is a coward
droning its mantra
into your ear 
until you believe 
uniting with others who feel as you do
accepting it as fact
distrusting your basic instincts
no longer seeking help
or listening to reason.

Hypnotizing 
you into acceptance and apathy
It will have you 
acknowledging that it is selfless
seducing you for your own good
insisting that you follow its lead
persuading finally 
that you come quietly
and not argue.
Altering forever
what would have been
into what must be.

**Inspired by Happy Family—a film at the Italian Film Festival in Honolulu.


http://www.cinemaitalianoinhawaii.org/

A Quiet Life—Una Vita Tranquilla

A Quiet Life

tortures  you

in unexpected ways

It leads you on

like a hot babe

with her long legs

wrapped

around your mid-section

pulling you into her

and just when you think

you can’t take any more

she slices your thumb off

and lets you run around in circles

howling WHY did you do that

WHY couldn’t you just LEAVE ME ALONE?

I’ve been good!

I’ve been good for fifteen years

I’ve started a new life

a new family

why couldn’t you

just leave me alone?

And she replies…

because

YOU BELONG TO ME.

** This movie is at the Italian Film Festival.

The story of a good family gone wrong. A man escapes to Germany and starts a new family thinking he will finally enjoy a quiet life. He is wrong.

18 Years Later

Two

brothers

not speaking

for 18 years,

a lifetime wasted

on misunderstanding

missed opportunity and

fate.  Reunited finally

by driving their father’s Morgan car

to Calabria to spread his remains.  

*etheree

**  I went to the Italian Film Festival yesterday and saw this comedy—18 Years Later was very good and extremely funny.

Dryer Woes

My dryer's vent
came through 
the colonoscopy okay
she was wide awake and talking
for the whole operation.
No drugs were used 
or animals
harmed 
during this procedure.

We had to go in and
surgically remove
several large polyps
with a rather long, hooded
flex-pole
sans camera. 

Dr. D. is a genius.

She had been feeling
sluggish of late
complaining of
constipation
and irritable bowel syndrome
couldn’t dry any
jeans past the damp stage.

After the operation
she was able to sit up 
and we are happy to report
although she did experience 
some lint laden hiccups
she did finally facilitate a 
successful
dryer event.

Poor dear
she’s relaxing comfortably
for the moment,
she doesn’t know yet
about the follow-up surgery
scheduled for next year. 
She’s been spewing non-stop 
hot about 
hooking up
with a young energy saver
with tight abs.

Flamboyant

Speak,

Act,

Write,

like it was your last

pithy

driven

edgy poem.

Have them hanging

there…mid-sentence

spell-bound

salivating

for that morsel

that one

thought

that single

tiny nugget

that is pure gold.

And command

their silence.

Make them stand at attention

click their heels

salute

proving yet again

that you are much more

than sexy sizzling hot

much more

than a High School diploma

and a middle aged grandmother. Much more than a

bank of knowledge

to borrow or

withdraw from.

DAZZLE them

and then…

WALK AWAY

disappear

into the horizon

make them think it was a dream

like a brilliant autumn leaf carried away

by the breeze

colorful and rustling

sprawling splendidly

in the gifted forest

later

crunched

by a doe

in the dark.