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Book 5 Page 70
In chosen magic
chaos disappeared
mirrors appeared
I saw myself kiss her goodbye
flower child
laughter in the wind
restless dancer
Then 1970 began
She faded back into chaos
leaving me magic memories
to view hidden from reality
47 years later
15/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Emotion burns away rational moments
dancing sacraments
shackled desires
failed conspiracy
Leaving me in ashes
driven wild
Shivering in this war-torn alley
naked with an undressed shop manikin
smiling day after day
at my erected ignorance
while taking me for a fool
as I give her mouth to mouth resuscitation
then my credit card
hoping for satisfaction
and equilibrium
I never deserved
but gladly take
knowing karma is mothing more
than a false ideology
to frame the weak
and make us beg for mercy
as emotion burns away
what should have been
Me pretending in sync with a stolen
store-window manikin from downtown
that life is in our control
15/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
While shaking the tree of knowledge
a flock of migrating geese
took all there was
What a stupid day is in store for the town’s populace
once again
15/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Being lost in this forest
so easy to be found
Just look for the non-tree that is clearly me
Happily lost
until found
15/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
I needed one more thought
to finish this day
But as I did not have one
today will be continued
tomorrow
15/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5 Page 95
I stepped out of a dream
and into you
Now I don’t know
which was real
15/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
In less than a twisted angle
your love tilted
fell over
slid
floated
reverberated
finally emerging
from such submerged feelings as seldom is fathomed to be possible
But hey
what the hell
It was love or close to it
No more negotiation was called for
16/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
I went to a natural holistic bio-sensitive faith healer
with several bags of problems
and modified self-inflicted issues
from my over-whelming lack of attention
on-line
That was then
Now is now
I still do not have an on-line audience
But since I died
I no longer care
16/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
So many favours owed
at the end of the road
Fortunate the forgetful
who live so long
with no debt of love
for they don’t know
it is the end
Just as they know not
of what is love
16/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5 124
Love flies fast past darkened reason
as if seasonal memory would return
through broken morning’s
rambles
to return as long lost love finally freed
17/09/17 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5 Page 111
In a reptilian pre-cave dude moment
before prophets, messiahs, saviours, poets
I began the long trek of evolution
to be liked on FB
by going viral with other unicellular life-cycle life forms
But cats, dogs, babies
and flash mobs
overshadowed my quest
Leaving me to grieve the loss of my single-celled
former self
17/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
With the collapse of the centre
random peace is possible
once the quiet stillness of empty nothingness
is filled with light
revealing a whispering wind
hypnotising
deceiving
annihilating
all senses that block
freedom unharnished
17/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5 Page 7
Unhinged
out of order
chaotic predictability
life is so much fun
17/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
I excitedly go to sleep
in preparation
for another day full of shit
before I get to sleep again
17/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
The brutality of my laughter
prevents the insects in my environment
from evolving to a step closer
to humans
17/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
After watching a Ted Talk on the top ten most likely ways
the world will end
I went and had a double fudge ice cream soda
to end my night
With no synchronicity
in evidence
17/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5. Page 41
It was one of those eventualities
where a poet could not stop writing
but should have
17/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Due to a solar outage
life ran out of fuel
leaving no one
to read this
17/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
In a reconstructed sequence
the moment was blinded
giving fault to a testimony
of undeniable nonsense
Nevertheless
it was clear
no one cared
17/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Too many belief systems
yet nothing to believe in
Time to create a new one
this time with me as my own hero
17/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
I knew if I didn’t
I wouldn’t
But if I did
then I would’ve
either way
the conclusion
is inconclusive
18/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5. Page 16
I placed this evening’s fjord reflection
in an accessible memory space
to embrace
whenever I need an escape
18/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
470. My life path
My life path
a chase in circles
with transparent
maybe even invisible
ends
to be constantly
lost within
18/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5. Page 14
My life path a chase in circles
with transparent
maybe even invisible
ends
to be constantly
lost within
18/09/17 Ringkøbing Fjord, Denmark
So easy to imagine
the place to be in
If only others would see it too
I would be there
18/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5. Page 133
Long lingers the night
when thoughts of you
replace you
and rain sounds make dreams of you
impossible to meet
Where cold replaces your lost touch
and morning
hides much too long
as long lingers the night
19/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
I saw my doppelganger sway
shake stumble and fall
across the train tracks
falling into the bushes
as I turned the page of my book
and played my music loader
to block her screams
while I momentarily wondered
why everyone refused to act as saintly as I do
and when they should stop pretending
they were me
19/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Oh how I despise the poets
and prose crappers
of this cycle of life on earth
Leave the accolades to me
for I was their muse
long before I became flesh
and craved the attention they received
and I never got
There should be only one famous writer
every 3000 years
and of course
most obviously
that should be me
for this one
19/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
This unsettled life
bouncing through an imaginary narrative
If I were less of an actor
long ago would I have been booed off of this stage
and left to laugh life away
in this alley
So excuse me if refuse to reappear once the curtains close
on this unsettled life
I too often pretend is real
19/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
I stayed awake all night in search of one thing
today presented as memorable
Worth passing on to grandchildren
and my biographer
only to realise
that if I had not taken so many sleeping pills
there would be something today
worth recalling
19/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
While negotiating which problems are most undervalued
several small ones grew
in sync with larger ones
creating problems without solutions
and tomorrows to avoid
Hello new escapes
20/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Trapped in life’s irony
I was unable to guess what came after
yesterday
20/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
With nowhere to go
I changed my direction
into a crash-change explode this space
to be here
20/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5. Page 100
The best of since you died
is now you travel the world with me
And so often are available
to chat with
20/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Soon after the last left
when being alone was the treasure
searches were stopped
memories deleted
and the source code
hacked
I found an excuse to run free
21/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5. Page 30
Photos supplement feelings
feelings supplement words
words mend broken promises
promises hold together roller coasters
roller coasters describes my life
life lies behind photos
21/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5. Page 92
I heard a wind echoing laugh
and knew it was you
telling me not to worry
The illusion of our life
is just a reflection
of shadows passing
through time
21/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
The mishaps in my dreams
have become so real
that I now have liability insurance
in case I act like my dreams are real
21/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
While getting back to basics
stripping away the complicated
being naked
single minded
embryonic
empty
hungry
the world around me evolved
leaving me simply
unified with being old
21/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
I cut the narrative to my life
in half
just to have an after and a before
in case I awoke
from this dream
and still had a life
21/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Perfection is the enemy of evolution
giving hope to the future
in fools like me
21/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Looking for answers
the alley is dark
nothing evident
places to be
so clear what
confusion is a mask
door closes
love hides
answers no longer matter
22/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
It was built from 3-D printed blocks
of disappointment and broken promise
Now the future wants it preserved
as a historical monument
to the past
22/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Far beyond expected
when ordinary becomes another category
Rare is the moment
Others gasp
not realizing the meaning
Some dream
Others manifest
When the sky closes
No one will light the way
It is all illusion
Heroes are but a reflection of dreamers
and dreams
a reflection of heroes
23/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5. Page 129
We danced on cobblestone streets
in my dream
a long ago forgotten city life
vanishing in the fog
invisible
silent
naked
scents of love in spring
lust in winter
satisfaction of summer
We swam in clouds
becoming entwined
intoxicated
breathing as one
tumbling laughter
as dawn cried
waking from dream
that perhaps was real
or in hindsight
well worth
the remembering
in this long ago forgotten city
23/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
I put the troubles of the world into a box
viewable only in my rear-view mirror
as I drive quickly away
giving me time
to plan my peaceful future life
with little distraction
23/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
#ModernDayLove
My love for you
will last longer than
the next news cycle
as long as a Facebook feed
for less verbiage than a tweet
until my next dream
24/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5. Page 117
With mixed reviews
morning began
Some said the sky was too red
Others twitted about rogue clouds
Evening complained it came too soon
Birds thought the mist was rather thick
Afternoon waiting patiently
was pleased with morning’s performance
I slept in and was happy
Overall there was general consensus
morning’s appearance
was a welcomed effort
24/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Phases of life:
Carnival period
Circus moments
Alley experiments
Wrong road trials
Artificial magical times
Silly days
Brave Days
Blushing days
Run and hide days
That is my current phase of life (day)
25/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
I could have stayed longer
if only I didn’t catch
the next train
given my passports to a wounded refugee
Learned more than nothing at all of Danish
Declared myself a social media exile
Payed the ransom of five or more likes on my FB Page
Stayed at home instead of going viral
Believed anything I had to say
Stopped referring to people younger than me as old
Had a mid-life crises at 70
I’m not keen to go
Life is showing me forward across this little country
Shooting me down under to a larger continent
Australia must I see you again
I don’t want to see kangaroos, koalas, the Outback, Aussies
Give me longer here
Let me be a Danish
An American-Australian-Danish refuge
But all to no avail
Off again tomorrow
with this home once again no longer
mine
25/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
I hate having illiterate conversations
with myself
Because it becomes impossible to answer back
without making fun of myself
25/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
We got ourselves into an impossible situation
which is OK
Because it is impossible
25/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
If I could write a poem about love
I won’t
no one would believe me
I would just giggle
Stumble over words
Get sweaty
Make spelling errors
Forget to rhyme
Say something stupid
instead of philosophical
Embarrass the neighbours
by singing my poem
I would try to include
my dog, chickens, or cat
in a romantic sonnet
If I could write a poem
about love
I won’t
25/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
I thought I heard her whispering my name
but it was just the wind
chasing clouds
across the fjord
whistling
an ancient Viking song
that in retrospect
sounded like my name
25/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Book 5. Page 54
I wrote a rusted poem
expressing my love and admiration
for my lovers
Snow White, Cinderella, Mother Mary
Rains fell
Floods
Pestilence
Karma
My poem was washed away
Cinderella, Mother Mary, Pocahontas
stayed
26/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Arrived in Copenhagen with an empty suitcase
to fill with Danish air to take back to Australia
so I can speak foreign too
like a Scandinavian stranded in the Outback
with a kangaroo as a guide
But first I am going to find myself once I can read a sign again
or/and understand what a passing stranger
in this dark alley
is saying
26/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
If I were not 70
I would say I was having a mid-life crisis
of gigantic proportions
so suffice it to say
I am but practicing for a future life
when 70 is equivalent to an adolescent
of today
26/09 Ringkøbing, Denmark
I realised while on the train today
that the reason the shop manikin in her fancy underwear
in the shop window in Ringkøbing
won’t respond to my filtration
and poetic seductive speech
was she only understood Danish
and I spoke but gibberish
27/09 train Ringkøbing to Copenhagen, Denmark
The glittering I see when I close my eyes
is nothing more
than distant galactic space aliens
programming my brain
so that I will be a better lover
for when they return to earth
and want me to love them like I do myself
when I stay here at the hotel
on the corner of never and ever
whistling my hypnotic happiness away
while I wait for their return
26/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
Book 5. Page 64
While tossing out-of-date memories into the bin
the one of us dancing on the horizon
(“just another full moon in Leo” you said)
rolled out
falling in the canal
Sinking rather quickly
I dove in to save it
Swimming past mermaids
Fast-food refuge’s rubbish
Cast-away dreamers
and various abstract things that had no harmony
By then I had forgotten what I was doing
and drowned
27/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
Oh, to have the simple life of the passing stranger
with her obvious stoned smile
glued crookedly
and not have all these issues we tourists are weighed down with
would make life
so chilled, holistic, organic, natural, spiritual, mundane
However boring as shit
so thank-you though
I will happily morph
into a machine-like brain dead
cut-out of town tourist
and buy cheap trinkets made in China
for my cat back at home
(wherever that may be)
to get high looking at
27/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
In dangerous dramatic drunken disclosure
truth was revealed to have forfeited love
for experimental surprise
so life would continue
these past two-thousand years
28/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
Skin touching
woken cells responding
Taking the fast train
station stopping
familiar territory explored
So much pleasure
Whatever else in the world that is happening
too distant to hear
Skin touching
along a Danish fjord
Even the swans blush
at what they hear
what we feel
Here under the night in our surrender
28/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
This city making me feel almost young
Touching walls five-hundred years old
If science were to keep me watching
as long as these stones
would I see as much change as they have
and if so would 500-years from now
remember me today
then too
In a sequel to my life
I became a seagull on the dock
watching tourists
behaving anti-nature
in their idiotic randomness
which appealed in a somewhat fascinating way
to my Danish seagull sense of humour
28/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
The difference of living in the 70s
and being 70
is less than fifty
and being confused why that is
28/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
While chasing the spark of life
I became burnt
and for no other reason
am I in this canal
than to extinguish any further flames
about to ignite
while pursing the spark of life
28/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
With class struggle
class structure
social class
the only class that matters
is the happiness class
29/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
I pretended I was a seagull
shitting on the people
below me
29/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
Book 5. Page 79
Copenhagen is 850 years old this year
I became 70 years old this year
Whatever became of those 780 years
in between
And why am I being left out
of the celebrations
I am living proof too
that old is cool
29/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
Book 5. Page 134
While ripping a hold in time and space
just to see who was on the other side
I found that the light at the end of the tunnel
was faulty
with no cosmic smiley face(s)
waiting excitedly for me
There was nothing more than my brain cells
playing tricks on me
once again
29/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
I thought the only way to return to here
was by magic
or maybe luck
perhaps divine intervention
or a bloody miracle
Then I discovered the only way to return
to here
was to purchase a ticket
and to fly here
Nothing cosmic about it at all
29/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
At the museum today
I was surprised to see how stupid humans really are
with the attached importance to stuff
that could not have sold at a garage sale
hundreds of years ago
but now tourists
stare with such intensity at old crap
really not valuable enough
to be worth keeping today
accept in museums
for passing tourists
like me
to gasp at and say ‘holy shit did they really live like that’
29/09 Copenhagen, Denmark
Book 5. Page 84
When in flight
I am closest to you
Now that you no longer
are on earth
30/09 Copenhagen to Dubai
Book 5. Page 24
Not asleep
not awake
not on earth
not in clouds
seems I am tied up
in knots
wishing you were here
30/09 Copenhagen to Dubai
Book 5. Page 123
So trendy these 20 – 30-year-old awesome whatevers
Their trendy apps
piercings tattoos torn clothes colourful hair scratchy voices
Instagram smiles
Such intelligent speech
with a ‘like’ between ‘oh my god’ & ‘you know’
Mimicking their manikin corporation programmed pop-idols
Hey I am trendy too
with all the cool apps on so many devices
and social mindlessness mindfulness
and being a vegetarian with some Buddhist beads
in my luggage somewhere
And I am invisible to these trendies too
How magical is that
Being 70 and married for decades is trendy
Just ask the folks over at the nursing home
01/October/17 Dubai > Adelaide
Book 5. Page 44
@ the border I declared my love
duty free
Now I am deported
‘refugees not wanted here’
01/October/17 Dubai > Adelaide
While deleting photos on my phone
I trashed myself
Now I no longer exist
01/October/17 Dubai > Adelaide
I wish I could act as convincible as they do in films
Perhaps I would be more believable
have a script
act less like me
Hang out with imaginary friends
on social media
With a ‘like’ for everything I do
01/October/17 Dubai > Adelaide
Book 5. Page 42
I wrote a poem
then buried it
so I would have something to eat
when I reincarnate
as a rate
01/October/17 Dubai > Adelaide
So many strange thoughts amongst these hundreds
of passengers on this flight
If they were not thinking
in such weird foreign languages
I would be able to comment further on their strange thoughts
01/October/17 Dubai > Adelaide
I was hoping I would be different
undergo some enlightenment
at least a fundamentally minor change
But after months abroad
I am returning home more like me
than before I left
01/October/17 Dubai > Adelaide
When I left I was in my 60’s
feeling like I was in my 70’s
When I returned
I was in my 70’s
feeling like I was in my 50’s
I should go away more
01/October/17 Dubai > Adelaide
I thought I had reached or is it achieved
attained
found
Nirvana
only to discover
I had forgotten to bring a pen
to the alley
giving no one notification of my new level of existence
So I was relieved of Nirvana
and all sub-sets
of that particular state
01/October/17 Dubai > Adelaide
While watching the temperature change
I was reminded of your love
and how the climate changed
so often when you were near
02/October/17 Adelaide
When searching for my match on a distant planet I was troubled
in discovering there were no organic-holistic-vegan
holier than thou life-forms
that could possibly be my match
02/October/17 Adelaide
I have recurring dreams
of the bad people in shows
I watch awake
are good people
living in fear of me
02/October/17 Adelaide
I enjoy tossing a box of words
into the air
in the mall
then casually
randomly
catching several handfuls
which I direct at those
not speaking my language tourists
who google my utterances
which sends them screaming away in fear
upon what they hear
02/October/17 Adelaide
Using in ‘The Weeds in My Garden’ Page # 43
The reason I have so many plastic flowers
in my garden
is because the weeds in my garden
would rather not kill them too
02/October/17 Adelaide
Apprehensively shadows merged meshed fondled
behind the cathedral’s alter
as the congregation chanted out of tune sacraments
sacrificing reason for divine
comedy
But I wasn’t amused
and became a shadow too
03/October/17 Adelaide
Evolution got herself into a rut
so all life ended
with the caveat that none was more
producing in some unknowable future
a life-force that would evolve
into something that is not us
03/October/17 Adelaide
While reaching for the sky
we choked to death
on a smog-cloud
disapproving the value
of reaching for the sky
03/October/17 Adelaide
Not knowing where to begin
language of little assistance
Birds announcing stuff
Mammals vacating
Swimming sea things hiding
Why can we not dance
flow with the wind
like trees do
Communication fractured
Mixed messages
Wants Needs Desires
swept away
insecurity is a menace
doubt a bad equation
The end is in sight
insightful even
There is no begin
We are all jokes to our clown gods
dictating merit
surprised of the response
goodbye
we are off
next never was the question
and finally ends this ramble
04/October/17 Adelaide
We waited beneath aspects of time
hoping to hide the quickness of it
make our time last
We were discovered
hording blocks of time
Now it has sped up
giving us less time
to fulfil our goal of reaching Nirvana
05/October/17 Adelaide
All our dreams we have had in our life time
is the totality of our beingness
when we leave earth
and just like when we were alive
there is nothing we can do
Not even wake up
05/October/17 Adelaide
I Googled ‘traits of an elderly person’
so I would know how to act
At the brothel
05/October/17 Adelaide
Seagulls on the jetty
telling jokes about tourists
and French fries
Making even the crows and galahs look silly
as they sit on the beach
basking in the sun
And fish frolic in the surf
saying they will never understand
the humour of seagulls
or lack there of
05/October/17 Adelaide
I put on my old man face
got on the bus
and farted
How much fun was that
05/October/17 Adelaide
Mellow melody memories
drowned out the fake news
that the poet was dead
Replaced by computer generated
narcissistic bot beats
05/October/17 Adelaide
A creative chipmunk easily replaces the semi-culturally elite
Humans whose spattering’s are on display
at the museum
receiving only programmed praise
from artificially intelligent manikins
applauding the artist’s demise
05/October/17 Adelaide
No one noticed that I stayed home today
and did nothing
Significant
05/October/17 Adelaide
I stopped counting at 70
and still won an extension
to my life
How lucky was that
05/October/17 Adelaide
I felt so lucky to wake up alive
this morning
that I went back to seep
to do it again
but I didn’t
05/October/17 Adelaide
During calculations of percentage of successful lovers on the beach
to sustain mutual satisfaction
I forgot what I was doing
Leaving me alone
to be washed away
by the gleeful waves
05/October/17 Adelaide
Death is the only
successful pain killer
05/October/17 Adelaide
Soon after realizing this would be the last thing I would ever write
I wrote something else
disproving my ability
to predict my own behaviour
05/October/17 Adelaide
No one saw me when I lived in New York City
20 million walked through me on the streets
each day
I asked for direction
they looked the other way
so I followed
I showed them my art
sang them my songs
handed out poems
newly inked
They took videos of rats
playing hop-scotch on the subway tracks
so I became a rat too
When I needed a bigger stage
more people
I got on the internet and blew a kiss to more than a billion people
I put up my art
for a billion people to admire
I joined every social media site of the past twenty-five years
I became more invisible than in New York City
where at least someone would bump into me
if there were enough people in the same space as me
Now I have left the internet
and no one noticed
Now I wonder if I ever really existed
and if so
what was it I was doing
and why did no one
ever see me
06/October/17 Adelaide
Book 5 Page 81
In a spatial reunion
with my former self
we reminisced about
the singularity of non-advancement
deciding that there was no future
in abstract chaos
while order was beyond any dimension we could exist in
knowing betrayal is the glue of evolution
presenting constant new dynamics
at the point of surrender
creating a no-point for my reunion
06/October/17 Adelaide
Naked dreams
leave me unfulfilled
as if something is missing
but waking alone in the alley
is even more troublesome
though extremely sexy
Ask any saint who has fallen
06/October/17 Adelaide
I heard mice under my bed
planning a party in my sacred organic pantry
That was then
Now is now
and no longer
am I a vegetarian
Thanks to the mice
no longer in my pantry
06/October/17 Adelaide
Now it is sexual harassment to smile at a woman
stepping out of her bathers at the beach on a hot
sensual afternoon
whereas not many years ago it was an insult
not to smile to a woman
as she dropped her bathers near me
and her breast stood erect
like I did
blocking the sun
06/October/17 Adelaide
Just for good measure
and to be dramatic
when I died
I came back too
sat up
rolled my eyes
and died again
06/October/17 Adelaide
Using in ‘The Weeds in My Garden’ Page # 44
The weeds in my garden
charged me with murder
when I told them
I was a vegetarian and ate only that which grew
in my garden
06/October/17 Adelaide
Remarkable the evening’s exchange
closure defragmented
No longer youth
No longer middle-aged
No longer
Darkness always was my favourite myth
There-in lies my hope
also my dilemma
that so comfortable
my darkness becomes
I will easily slip away
merging successfully
with the Great-Nothing-At-All
07/October/17 Adelaide
@ the party
everyone laughed for a different reason
though none the same
I reasoned not because of me or my behaviour
though in a certain light
I may have been funny
But due to locked-in memory
interpreted in so many ways
I was unable to resolve
why they laughed
or locked me into the toilet
then set it alight
as each in their own way
continued to laugh
the mist away
07/October/17 Adelaide
Being out of character
the blow-fly quietly hunched over my computer
as if I would not know such antics would deter me
from using a sledge hammer for her demise
until I heard the crunch of my computer
and shattered glass
as the blow-fly in a fit of laughter
flew off to wreak havoc on someone else
07/October/17 Adelaide
The crazy people followed
the crazy president
over the cliff
fearing someone was going to take their right
to their favourite breakfast cereal away
07/October/17 Adelaide
Recycled love is better for our planet
than love grown cold
tossed out to sea
07/October/17 Adelaide
Fret not over fate
nor embrace faith
But rise up
and eat chocolate
whenever feasible
07/October/17 Adelaide
In a rebellious dream
my life fell into a sewage drain
filled with foreigners
whistling my name
07/October/17 Adelaide
Easily better the next
does become
once learned performance
synchronizes with failure
lifting
then transforming
all into what should have been
07/October/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 66
I had scrambled dreams
with coffee and eggs
this morning
Interesting to see
how today will turn out
08/October/17 Adelaide
In a well-ordered assault on my senses at the party
I successfully blocked every thought process
that tried to move in on what would have been
a normal evening
08/October/17 Adelaide
As the least creative of my species
I knew little else than to draw a circle
and climb into it to become
another animated gif
for no one to like
in a disused corner of cyberspace
But I am not bitter
Revenge is for those who write code
not senile old men
I just will no longer ‘like’
anything anyone ever does
That will teach them to ignore
the least creative of my species
08/October/17 Adelaide
Every project I have ever started
has come to naught
accept for this project
to not start another project
which so far has been very successful
in its nothing sort of way
08/October/17 Adelaide
To paraphrase the thoughts
ricocheting off the walls of my brain
‘ouch those thoughts hurt’
but due to holes in my logic
those thoughts slipped out
escaped
reformatted
to the point of almost
remembered
08/October/17 Adelaide
The future has less value than the past
as the future can be changed
the past cannot
so hang on to the past
for it only has value
08/October/17 Adelaide
My idea is to write one-half of one-hundred stories
give them to robots to complete
in hopes they will make a better narrative
of stories of my life
than I do
09/October/17 Adelaide
My research is on the chemical reaction
of unrequited love
between cells in a petri dish
during a thunder storm
Once my findings are published
I will sell all rights
to Netflix
for a 4-season show
of many episodes
09/October/17 Adelaide
So sure the sea shore
is at the point of no return
That to explain anything else
would so dull the investigation
as to question integrity itself
with the accused
being excused
for saying little at all
and still making no sense
09/October/17 Adelaide
I reconstituted your ashes
(sorry about losing your foot in the process)
so to have a day
with you at the beach
again
10/October/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 78
Saw my future self
crying at the finish line
Not sure how long
it will take me
to get there
10/October/17 Adelaide
Saw 10 10 on my computer this morning
so of course I assumed
my psychic screen
was forecasting today’s results
of perfection
only to realize
when it became not so perfect
that my computer was proclaiming
that it was October the Tenth
and nothing more
10/10/17 Adelaide
Didn’t know what to think
so I thought of you
Now I wish I had stayed with sorting out
what to think
10/October/17 Adelaide
What is good about being so old
is that sports scores
no longer matter
the daily news could be fake
and not worth the attention
and that the reflection in the mirror
is really someone else
10/October/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 97
One of my deceased lovers
imbedded a virus into my dreamomatic
so that every night every dream
she would be the one
whom I was running from
10/October/17 Adelaide
I fulfilled my promise
to myself not to be everything
god told me to become
Lucky me
I get to be just ashes when I die
and nothing more
10/October/17 Adelaide
So good to feel so good
not sure why anyone
would work so hard
not to
but they do
10/October/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 34
With nowhere to hide
I disappeared
Now I am unable
to find myself
10/October/17 Adelaide
If I were a magical clown
I would be laughing all the way to the bank
with rabbits coming out of my hat
and flowers out of my pocket
to disrupt the accumulation
of wealth
and pay for my parking fine
10/October/17 Adelaide
I thought we were winners
amongst losers
the chosen in front of masses of followers
Chosen surround by fools
But it was just me
in front of a hall of mirrors
at the amusement park
10/October/17 Adelaide
Today was so good
I put it up on e-bay
and waited for the bids to flood in
None did
so I will keep it for myself
What a bargain I have
recycled yesterday
10/October/17 Adelaide
Whatever became of me
who was ‘everything you would ever want’
fifty years ago when I went out the door
never to return
What if I came back
tomorrow
would either of us know
that i was
‘everything you would ever want’
10/October/17 Adelaide
Hero’s laughter long gone
before crowds become enemies
in the blood shattered noise of surrender
with only a warm westerly wind winding through
evening parade
with no one left
to remember the hero’s laughter
or the smell of defeat
11/October/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 120
In stupid poetic rhyme
I wrote such shitty lines
I refused to share them then
and I won’t now
so accept this
as a replacement
of what was never meant to be
of any worth
11/October/17 Adelaide
Exhausted by so many thoughts
I drank a glass of detergent
and blew bubbles of thoughts
into the evening sky
freeing me of such abstracted hazards
as so many thoughts
11/October/17 Adelaide
So easy to cover the problems of the world
turn off all media
Sit in nature
Count stars
Waves upon the shore
Count how many chips
a seagull can eat at one go
Sand Castles
Leaves on a tree
Anything can heal the problems of the world
if it is covered
ask any refugee
12/October/17 Adelaide
Too often planning what is next
neglecting now
and favouring yesterday
all these pieces of life
lost in the win
12/October/17 Adelaide
*615. Went for a hike in the woods
Book 5. Page 137
Went for a hike in the woods
wearing my dancing shoes
Happy to report
so many animals and a few trees
joined in
12/October/17 Adelaide
Morning reposted evening’s sunset
which went viral in the southern hemisphere
and was ignored by the northern hemisphere
as some called it fake
12/October/17 Adelaide
It took me seventy years to realise
that 63 % of my thoughts
were not worth exploring
22% I stared at with no result
15% I forgot what I was thinking about
12/October/17 Adelaide
Too many the myth
whispered between our touch
in this re-invented life
we forget is still our own
13/October/17 Adelaide
Pillars of cracking narrow perceptions
holding up such fragile possible structures
of meaning
so easily destroyed
in an unpredictable wind
13/October/17 Adelaide
My backup plan
backed up
and left me
Nowhere to land
Hello dark clouds
Silken sky
Death defying act
that defied nothing
13/October/17 Adelaide
So fast the times
I rarely can wait until dreams of you
are complete
Leaving me to wake again
without you laughing in my shadow
at the silly highway
we got lost upon
so long ago
13/October/17 Adelaide
Just so perfect this experiment in shades
of change
Soon shops will have
change recharging stations
We will plug into one another
in easy exchange
my laughter their sorrow
Kind of funny with no one laughing
being just so perfect
once again
13/October/17 Adelaide
So many steps to get back to normal
such great distance
efficiently will sprout wings
and fly
away
leaving normal
to losers who seek
nothing else
13/October/17 Adelaide
Cannot wait to get to the end
so as to tell everyone
that nothing is here
so no point
to begin with at all
Though we were kidding when love was the vehicle
with no destination at all
and to the end
never was the goal
at all
13/October/17 Adelaide
In a well designed
though not tested play
All life on earth was brought to an end
but no one knew it
so the plan
became void and everyone continued on
in this broken dream we call life
13/October/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 142
I saw a herd of cows
dancing in the moonlight
then throwing their hats into my sky
But what was strange to me
as an outsider
was that they were singing out of tune
old Irish limericks
that made little sense
not even to a dancing herd of cows
13/October/17 Adelaide
Hand drawn conclusion
rough sketch
erase where I stood in front of your house
put in an image of a tree
one capable of producing perhaps apples
to cover your door
never again to open to an erased me
in this rough sketch
of once was our life
14/10/17 Adelaide
In a strange moment
we abandoned technology
went back to being human
re-invented the touching game
Learned to speak with one another
Walked in the forest
Swam ashore to laugh
all in a strange moment
with no technology
14/10/17 Adelaide
I create to free myself
I fly to escape
I learn to love
I lover to learn
I live in changing worlds
that I change
that I am master of
Now that I created
a self that is free
14/10/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 89
Every morning I paint
a picture of what I wish in my day
Then I get out of bed
and walk into my painting
14/10/17 Adelaide
“Not enough” said the kangaroo
but I did not understand her language
and left the trail
clueless
once again
14/10/17 Adelaide
I became very quiet
Listened to sound waves
from another universe
Became immersed with the message
Finally to unscramble it
Only to hear
“Brush your teeth mate”
Then to realise it was just my reflection
vibrating sound from my computer
downloading a video
and the message was not from another universe
causing me to feel dumb
once again
14/10/17 Adelaide
With one paragraph to go
the day ended
another good story
unravelled
14/10/17 Adelaide
In a communicational shift
my voices sang to me
nursery rhymes
in foreign voices
none of course were in sync
with the corresponding personality
making me
feel like a fool at the synagogue today
15/10/17 Adelaide
Book 6. Page 126
Not paying attention
No doubt being too relaxed
contemplating when I should have been
Factualizing
Actualizing
Rationalizing
I opened a wrong door
in the midst of a dream
I should not have been privy to
but was
damn straight I shouldn’t have been there
It was your dream
nothing seemed familiar
because it wasn’t
Where were you
Now I am stuck
the screams I produce
I hear outside of you
I need to wake your dream
but I can’t
you won’t
The bridge is rapidly approaching
We are on the wrong side heading into oncoming traffic
If you crash and die
I will be stuck forever in your dead dreams
I don’t know what to do
Does anyone
15/10/17 Adelaide
I announced victory
knowing I would win the race
beating out the other three
(Father Son Holy Ghost)
before we even began
And as a benevolent victor
I easily give those three losers
a space each beneath my table
My scraps will become their substances
Throughout eternity
15/10/17 Adelaide
While in rehab
coming off the drug ‘negative news’
that the media had made me addicted to
I escaped into a real forest
becoming healed
so I could easily run nakedly amok through my thoughts
and not be affected by the daily media poison
15/10/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 94
I lost my glasses
Now I can only hear
my imaginary playmates
doing cartwheels and flying by
15/10/17 Adelaide
In an unforeseeable moment
I died
Now I don’t know what to do
15/10/17 Adelaide
I watched the wind blow
away my final thought
of the day
Now I am unable to say
15/10/17 Adelaide
So many ways to die
so far I have avoided them all
which explains
nothing at all
16/10/17 Adelaide
A four-year old tells me I am funny
not sure whether to feel complimented
immature
a bit young acting for a seventy-year old
or should I canvas some three and five year old’s
to confirm whether I am funny
Perhaps if someone said I was the funniest person
that they had seen in four-years
I would have a comparison
What happens to my self-esteem
if only four-year old’s think I am funny
and everyone else thinks not
Should I just hang out with four-year old’s
or should I stop being funny
only in front of four-year old’s
I need a new audience
Tomorrow I am going to find some kangaroos
on my daily walk
to see if they too laugh
when I make silly faces and say stupid things
and if not are they more or less
than a four-year old’s mind set
16/10/17 Adelaide
We had a good beginning
awful middle
while the end just dissolved into a false memory
though colourful, extreme, entertaining, beyond belief
which I still cling on to
16/10/17 Adelaide
In a memory soaked moment
images replaced feeling
Out of focus
though viewable in a viable hazy way
I did not scream then
I will not now
Tears belong to the memory
not to the memory
Not to my interpretation
Luckily I have an ability to manipulate
photos in a re-creative
not-the-way-it-was
vision
Knowing that memory is little more than
a pixilated view
of what possibly was
16/10/17 Adelaide
I wonder if my creator
realizes I created her
to create me
realizing her
16/10/17 Adelaide
The story had no believable parts
Made little if any sense
Too farfetched
No outstanding characters
Memorable lines
Box office appeal
Thus my life was lived
16/10/17 Adelaide
I kept looking in the mirror in hopes
that what I saw
was not me
but it was
So I embraced comedy
to explain what others wished
not to see
Mirrored one-liners
Keeping me laughing
16/10/17 Adelaide
Book 5. 112
Stars colliding
we hear the sound on earth
millions of years later
saw it on the news
Will it take so long for our once were love
to reach our life
once again
17/10/17 Adelaide
Be unusual was the plan
Mask indifference
Protest the parade
I can hear flowers bloom
breaking the unusual
decapitating the moment
while love suffers peacefully
17/10/17 Adelaide
When galaxies collide
nothing remains to declutter
But as we are a long time from such an event
I will collect ‘fridge magnets
as well as other stuff
that now holds significance
But billions of years hence
may not seem as value
in a relative short cycle of our oh so insignificant galaxy
as it spews material
including my ‘fridge magnets
into space
17/10/17 Adelaide
I googled the distance to you
but got a return of
‘distance incalculable’
All alone
once again
17/10/17 Adelaide
Now I remember
why I am the master
of forgetfulness
17/10/17 Adelaide
I often ask questions
in a language I have never heard
then answer in a language
I do not understand
17/10/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 72
While searching for god on the internet
I came across a picture of my dog
who had run off from my house twenty years ago
He was quiet but appeared all knowing often
Though now I wonder if he was
and why was he on my search for god
18/10/17 Adelaide
In case this would be the last thing
I would ever write
I did all possible to be clear
concise easy to understand
giving closure so those who read this
would understand
without me here to explain
18/10/17 Adelaide
Wonder wisely but unknowingly
to be free to fill full of experience
and create cravings unfulfilling
but close enough
to continue forward
18/10/17 Adelaide
Like with any relationship
the end of the world
will pave the way for something new
and exciting
but impossible to experience
18/10/17 Adelaide
My life has been divided into slices
Holistic Organic Biodegradable Low-carb
vegan slices
and junk-food slices
I am now at the crust stage of my loaf of life
with no concept of what that means
19/10/17 Adelaide
Behind my words of wisdom
are the hissings of an alley cat in heat
a man on his way to the gallows
an eagle with a rabbit in its claws
an unjust god seeking revenge on those who refuse to worship her
Leaders dreaming of nuclear annihilation
Behind my words of wisdom
exist everything that is wrong
19/10/17 Adelaide
The audience of the audience seeking attention
left before any applause
could begin
with no encore expected
19/10/17 Adelaide
Youth is good for naught
but entertainment
Middle age for understanding
Old age for creating
the entertainment of understanding
19/10/17 Adelaide
If you added seven-billion plus people of earth together
then divided by seven-billion
I would be that average person
19/10/17 Adelaide
I just remembered having said to you
I will follow you until the end of the time
fifty-years ago
Now I do not know where you are
or when is the end of time
or perhaps it was when I said that to you
fifty-years ago
19/10/17 Adelaide
In a once in a life-time
free for all of captured memories of you
Rolling faster than I could collect and box them up
I jumped out of the way
so as not to be crushed
but I was
20/10/17 Adelaide
In a morning filled airs of discontent
I sprayed lavender to change how we would vaporize
change
giving us another easy time
to go forward in
20/10/17 Adelaide
I heard seven-billion people whisper
a tsunami sweeping
away the screams of nightmares past
Everyone wanting to end this cycle
start one with only whispering
wearing blindfolds
holding hands
waking in a different dream
20/10/17 Adelaide
I wrote an unfinished poem
and another one with no begging
and another one that I never read
I am happy I do not write poetry
Poetry is for wimps, fools, the weak
the elderly
not us simple folks
who hate metaphors
20/10/17 Adelaide
What is so comforting with being dead
is no longer caring about all our crap
and what becomes of it
20/10/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 93
I sacrificed hope on the altar of meaning
long before it became
fashionable
20/10/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 20
Coat hanging on the door
Resting
Before disguising me
as a great hunter
Dashing into the night
in search of love
for my evening meal
20/10/17 Adelaide
Such survival to this end
getting here was short of fun
sort of
I play laughter tracks to remind myself
that none of this is real
At any moment I can
Switch paths
sail a different sea
change my mask
All I have ever known
was how to survive to the next end
and look I am here
proving I did it again
21/10/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 91
I so perfected the blur effect
that people at the station
think I am a cartoon figure
rushing them by
on my way to solve
yet another mystery
21/10/17 Adelaide
North to south
east to West
I ride my life on a merry-go-round on odd days
in a Ferris wheel on even days
never stopping
to wonder why
21/10/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 37
As strange as the events of my life are
knowing that they are created and directed by miniature robots
hiding in the bushes in front of my house
give me great comfort
21/10/17 Adelaide
The gum tree in my front yard
too often complained bitterly of her loss
of innocence and lack of exposure
so I put a photo on facebook
of the annoying self-centred gum tree
and taped all the comments on the tree
I lied about how many likes
saying there were thousands and many shares
Now my gum tree bows to me every time
I walk by
How weird is that
21/10/17 Adelaide
Standing in my kitchen
thinking of 65 years ago
being five in 1952
2017 the teenager years of the 2000s
Blended memories of then with what am I doing
standing in the kitchen
with the glass of milk as I had 65 years ago
My mother not connecting with me on Instagram
My father not asking if I was looking
at porn on the dark web
Everyone from that kitchen long dead
I am the only one alive in my kitchen now
No doubt because of the same glass of milk
as 65 years ago
22/10/17 Adelaide
Atmospheric pleasure
is the weather report for tonight
and possibly for the rest of this week
22/10/17 Adelaide
While riding on the bike path
came across my shadow going the opposite direction
Surely a story for a team of investigative journalists
to dig into
in hopes to uncover
such a conspiracy theory of incredibly shadowy proportion
that the public will be hidden
for a very long time from
22/10/17 Adelaide
Random love found
at the morgue
is not worth dying for
22/10/17 Adelaide
While decluttering my shed
of metaphors
I found myself
unexplainable
22/10/17 Adelaide
Never believed of getting to this place
with nothing left to write
yet still going forward
as if there was something to say
while being speechless
in fear of rambling nonsense
and being caught saying too much
when there was nothing left to say
but here I am with nothing to say
and saying it anyway
23/10/17 Adelaide
Always waiting for a big announcement
telling us the change has come
nothing no longer shall stay the same
Pigs will fly
Elephants dancing
Horses flying
Aliens will save humanity
All my apps on high alert
I no longer sleep
just waiting to hear of change
Excitement wanes when I hear on the news
that a big change will never arrive
We must brace ourselves
with the terribly boring fact
that the future will be similar to now
only different
though not enough to be
noticed
23/10/17 Adelaide
While sitting in my backyard
watching the grass grow
I could not stop thinking
how rapidly life passes by
23/10/17 Adelaide
I heard the ruffled sounds of life passing by
A sonnet of anticipated warmth
not far away
I will get up from my death bed
and search why there is
such merriment
at my funeral
23/10/17 Adelaide
Within the wanning cycle of friendship
times shared increase in value
If only we could repeat where the wanning cycle began
there could possibly be a path of extension
rather than a wanning to zero left
we are no longer together
23/10/17 Adelaide
Book 5. Page 40
Every day starts off
filled with magic
Reminding me
of when I first met you
24/10/17 Adelaide
So easy to distant stare
creating future vision from remnants
of past times
Somehow to be then would possibly
was when I believed
I was someone else
24/10/17 Adelaide
Scrambled love
free for the taking
deciphered code of need
we all nod in unison
allowing our reptilian brain
to direct us safely to Nirvana
24/10/17 Adelaide
Book 5 Page 19
After gathering together skies
full of clouds
I sought shelter beneath the seas
where I lived my life
as a fish with no regrets
24/10/17 Adelaide
As luck would have it
I reincarnated
though I am not sure why
I would ever believe such nonsense
as now I am stranded
in this alley trying to change
water into whisky for a group
of reincarnated kings and queens
each demanding all that I have
and getting none
24/10/17 Adelaide
Child-sitting 101b
In a numerically proper world
4 should not be greater than 70
which is what I tell myself
as I am constantly outsmarted (manipulated)
by a four-year old
Surrender was never on the horizon
Defeat is non-negotiable with a child
The end game for a 70-year old male always has been to be
naught more than a ‘yes’ entity to a four-year old female
who surely was Joan of Arc in a previous life
25/10/17 Adelaide
I get out of bed each morning in preparation to go to bed
that evening
All time between those two events
is merely filling
between leaving my dream world and returning
to my dream world
next
25/10/17 Adelaide
The make-believe world
of leaders
does not include me
because they don’t (include me)
Giving a peaceful aura to my projected
not caring
25/10/17 Adelaide
While debating the unnecessary extremism of a philosophy of nothing
I was able to reconcile my differences with the wild life
my local government owned
national park
and to feel satisfaction
for the nil response
which to me
means agreeability at all costs
2510/17 Adelaide
Music mixing with silence
no one will be deaf once this wind
corrupts the valley
originating in my head
spilling out
taking neighbours for hostage
if only moods would not have been inflamed
our deadly darkened dance
could have enabled silence
leaving us free to live
one more day
26/10/17 Adelaide
Every time I proclaim
‘nothing left to write’
others shout out
agreement
But I don’t
and wrote this to prove
otherwise
26/10/17 Adelaide
In the mirrored nightmare
of my crippling thoughts
I hear you scream
so I could suffer too
But the moment is gone
with light fading
taking you once again
from my sight
If only for a moment’s reprieve
so I can take a breath
and suffer anew
26/10/17 Adelaide
What worth is this life
but to provide humour
for future story weavers
of once-were people
cast so strangely
they tried to wipe themselves out
and the planet with them
26/10/17 Adelaide
Book 5 Page 110
I read on the news feed today
that humans may have been roaming about
more than 300-hundred-thousand years ago
Not sure why it took so long
before another one
would read this
27/10/17 Adelaide
Hundreds of years from now
people-bots will analysis us
and have well-founded theories on why we were so stupid
for so long
27/10/17 Adelaide
Book 5 Page 130
Significant shadows
whisper in evening haze
I thought so about me
mistakenly I painted them over
Next time I will not be so disorderly
disorientated
Maybe share a slice
of the good life that all shadows crave
Until then
I will continue to laugh
until evening screams
my name
Lake Benanee, New South Wales, Australia 28/10/17
Back to my familiar favourite space
comfort surrounds
sensual silence seduces
I am in love with sequences of memories
gelling in time
with broken breathing
I could easily stay here
until the end of time
or at least until tomorrow
whichever comes first
Here in my favourite familiar space
28/10/17 Lake Benanee, New South Wales, Australia
I left it too late
everything swept away
with eons of time
replacing what could have been
with particles of yet to be named stuff
Covering me so I could stay
invisible now
forever
28/10/17 Lake Benanee, New South Wales, Australia
The scent of her touch
lingered long after
I awoke from dreaming of her
Long before she walked out the door
only to return
once a decade in my dreams
29/10/17 Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia
Book 5 Page 122
I love sleeping on the banks of the river
listening to fish
passing by
chattering happily
knowing I do not eat fish
or expect their applause
29/10/17 Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia
Book 5 Page 58
Sampled tomorrow
A bit of love on the curb
Shady deal in the alley
Bought a losing lottery ticket
My FB page was hacked and replaced with a clown photo
I died
Don’t think I will do tomorrow
30/10/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
I closed the door when I saw you
running down the garden path
toward my home
But you came down the chimney
I flew out the window
Otherwise life could have been better
but it wasn’t
30/10/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Here we are distance end
so good to have spanned this space with you
Now that we are here
we should celebrate
by never going further
30/10/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
After you died I kept aging
you didn’t
Now I am 70 you are still 20
always will be
I never will be so close to your age again
as fourteen years ago the day you went away
31/10/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Too quick the life
to re-write the script
reenact our once divine script
as we rush off the stage
only to hide in the audience misty midst
as if nothing ever happened
not even this
31/10/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
I wish there was more to life
than to start at the end
but there isn’t
All that exist between
is someone else’s memory
and I no longer want those
31/10/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
All our actions in life
little more than a passing wind
on its way to the artic
to deliver cold and ice
Perhaps global warming
will reveal more of us
so we can thaw out as if we had memories
worthy to share
31/10/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Book 5 Page 23
I thought I saw you at the station today
laughing with my former self
I ran to the mirage
only to wake on the floor
with a bruised head and in the distance
hearing my wife asking
if I had ‘that dream again’
31/10/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Book 5 Page 128
I heard more than seven-billion cry out for recognition
so I gave each a gold star
I used cheap glue
All the stars fell with a thud
Even more disturbing
no one believes in me anymore
Which is why no one gets what they ask for
anymore
31/10/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
How convenient to forget the next line
when there was not one to begin with
yet the audience still applauded until I forgot them
and they realise what fools we are
not to have listened to begin with
31/10/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Lucky it sees this cycle
to start with nothing in place
What a puzzle to embed ourselves into
least we think
more we will arrive
head in hand
behaving as evolution’s favourite nitwits
blindly falling forward
01/11/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Book 5 Page 128
A day in black and white
such a funny way to see Sydney
So fashionably
non-colourful
01/11/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Book 5 Page 136
The harbour was filled with mermaids
unicorns, and other stuff
making me so happy
until a seagull laughed at me
then I cried
01/11/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Book 5 Page 13
I love Sydney in the summer
Everyone naked
doing cartwheels on the pier
Throwing rose pedals into the air in celebration
Kissing vegetarian strangers
in such a holistic season
as summer in Sydney should be
01/11/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Everyone in this city acts so happy
knowing their audience
would never accept
anything less
01/11/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Book 5 Page 69
The people here have sex on the docks
in the alley
in the chapel
on the train
the ferry
tram
buses
under the trees
beneath light poles
on the Sydney Harbour Bridge
in front of the Opera House
inside too
Sydney is a very loving town
01/11/17 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
So quick the change
floating easily
riding a southernly breeze
change erupts
a murderous air almost
storm smears calm
no way back
I hate to deal with change
but again I will
hello shitty morning
02/11/17 Hawksbury River Caravan Park, New South Wales, Australia
Book 5 Page 29
I often pretend my shadow is me
as people walk over it
with glee
and I quietly feel nothing
02/11/17 Hawksbury River Caravan Park, New South Wales, Australia
I found playing the role
of a young person
easy
It is playing the role
of a 70-year old
difficult
02/11/17 Hawksbury River Caravan Park, New South Wales, Australia
Book 5 Page 55
All day on the motorway
surrounded by cars, trucks
self-absorbed drivers
ending day of traffic
face-to-face
make-my-day cows
fast food to some
to me
rest at the climax
of a too rushed life
03/11/17 Oxley Recreation Reserve, Victoria, Australia
Book 5 Page 46
I fill my conversations with hidden meanings
and leave the punch line out of my jokes
Now suspicious cows no longer listen to me
or look at me with interest
Tomorrow I will converse with sheep
04/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
Book 5 Page 140
I found love at the bottom of a mountain stream
But as a protector of the environment
I put it back
04/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
I lost the key to understanding
and gambled away my lack of reason
Dreams became ill-spent lust
The star I wished upon was a black hole collapsing
and after becoming lost
on the road less traveled
I drank to my health contaminated water
Now I lay in the alley
content with my visions
of Joan of Arc burning at the stake
with me
04/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
I thought I had gone further
but I was still at the launching far in space
the day you said goodbye
forever
04/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
Confounded by the truth
I went back in search of a better dream
04/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
Everyone is so much more creative than me
I mangle thoughts
use clashing colours on broken ideas
sing surfing songs out of tune
watch curtains close on my opening acts
and forget which galaxies I have created
05/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
741. I worry about all the issues
I worry about all the issues
cows in the paddock are faced with
Unsure which clump of grass to eat
whether north is better than south
What to do if some farm animals
get social sites but cows are excluded
What about rebellious non-herding beatnik adolescent cows
mixing with non-farm animals
such as non-conformist bohemian marsupials
I worry about the next generation of liberated issue-bound cows
Don’t you
05/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
Book 5 Page 61
I worry about all the issues
cows in the paddock are faced with
Unsure which clump of grass to eat
whether north is better than south
What to do if some farm animals
get social sites but cows are excluded
What about rebellious non-herding beatnik adolescent cows
mixing with non-farm animals
such as non-conformist bohemian marsupials
I worry about the next generation of liberated issue-bound cows
Don’t you
05/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
Book 5 Page 9
My wife eats farm animals
My son eats them too
Because I do not eat farm animals
they hide in my sock drawer
every day just before meal time
and run amok the rest of the time
So it appears that a circus has become our lives
And we all appear quite happy with that
05/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
I used to think getting old would be a drag
but instead
I get a kick out of looking
into the mirror
and giving myself a freight
05/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
Book 5 Page 99
Rebellious independent demanding cows in the paddock
after a casual straw vote
unanimously decided to break away from Australia
declaring the Paddock Of Moo (POM)
their divine birthright
sending all other farm animals to Tasmania
in exile
But the rebellion was short lived
with fast-food outlets selling
independent burgers for half-price
06/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
Book 5 Page 51
Melbourne city walls of stories
gave solace
as I fled my shadow
merging graffiti with an alley
of future dreamtime yet to be
revealed
06/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
Book 5 144
The café waiter said that I was
the first American he had met in Melbourne
Not sure what gave me away
My New York accent
or that I look the same age
as the Statue of Liberty
06/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
I traded my low-carb diet
for a blowup plastic doll
still my blood sugars are too high
Tomorrow I will trade it all for images of food
in supermarket catalogues
Knowing I can never be anything more
than an advertised special
in a false moment
of yet to be found hope
06/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
Too many random messiahs
muddle the creation myth
yet none to prove any are real
leaving multiple versions
on the cutting room floor
in a Hollywood studio
06/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
Slippage of time
lack of rhyme
journeys of significance
with none to understand
bundled moments
Some of my best experiences
left along the path for strangers to shift through
so much time slippage
roasted so to speak
barely enough left
to tell you this
07/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
I expected more than I could deliver
another day naked at the train station
closed years ago
where I wait daily
for your non-return
07/11/17 Dingley Village Caravan Park, Melbourne, Australia
Book 5 Page 36
So quiet and dark
koala grumbling abstractly
breaking silence
still dark
I should venture out
say ‘stop your animal fussing’
At the bottom of the mountain
town’s people avoid this forest track
‘Haunted’ they say
No phone reception No internet
Feeling hungry feeling cold
If I could see the road
I would go for a walk
My cave-ancestor self
would not believe all my complaining
here in my modern caravan-cave
parked alongside a forest track
with me inside grumbling like a koala
08/11/17 Lake Elizbeth, Forest, Victoria, Australia
Book 5 Page 131
I left the outside lights of my caravan on
so dancing marsupials could see each other in the dark
they were doing the marsupial shuffle
stopping and hopping and waggling
to the forest tunes of DJ Seagull
08/11/17 Lake Elizbeth, Forest, Victoria, Australia
Book 5 Page 105
I knew today was Wednesday
as that is the day marsupials go to the clearing
and tell their imaginary story of the week
08/11/17 Lake Elizbeth, Forest, Victoria, Australia
Wow! What a cold night
Too cold to finish this story
So if you are quiet enough
I will sing it to you
08/11/17 Lake Elizbeth, Forest, Victoria, Australia
A koala comic kept me awake all night
here in Great Otway National Park
telling rude jokes about seventy-year old peasants
from New York
which I took personally
as I am 70 and I am from New York
Tomorrow I will repeat my concerns to the park ranger in hope
that someone else in my situation is not faced
with the same dilemma
08/11/17 Lake Elizbeth, Forest, Victoria, Australia
Book 5 06
This place is so abstract and naked
that even Shakespeare
did not write a play
about it
08/11/17 Lake Elizbeth, Forest, Victoria, Australia
Twisted language
bent meanings
Let us escape
Where touch is
our only communication
09/11/17, Naracoorte Showgrounds, South Australia
I often stare at Australia
with a distorted American
alien angle
hoping Australia doesn’t stare back
claiming my non-heritage
as a burden
to the status quo of ordinary Aussies
taking the piss out of us
lost tourists
09/11/17, Naracoorte Showgrounds, South Australia
Return from epic stuff
experiences, observations, elevated thinking
back to normal
only one step higher
comfortable with knowing
rest is only a moment’s oasis
before going back out
for more epic stuff
10/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Without interpretation
changes would have no meaning
chaos little achievement
experiences no drama
to sing, write, perform about
Without interpretation
life would suck
10/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 Page 4
New life in an old body
describes my every morning reflection
Before confronting a mirror
10/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I would trust a witch doctor
before a politician
which explains
why I died at birth
10/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
*764. I am not a poet or a prose writer
I am not a poet or a prose writer
but just a catcher of falling words
between clouds on a not hot sunny day
in hope that sense will be made of such randomness
and I can make a fast buck
10/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
If jesus said in his twitter feed
that only through him
could we see god
would trump call it fake news…
10/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Watching today dissolve
into the misty murky solution
of a chemically unbalanced evening
gives pause
but little else
11/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I so disagreed with them
that I pretended to be someone else
just so I would appear to agree
with them
Now I don’t recognise me anymore
and if I did would I
disagree still
11/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I told Google that I was a racehorse
Now they are trying to see me to a Hong Kong syndicate
with a starting bid of tens of dollars
Tomorrow I will let Google know that I am
an antique Ford in hopes
to get a pricer bid
11/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Pop stars from the 60s
now in their 70s
came to town
clearly having lost their youthfulness
along with their ability to perform
Making even the young people
still in their 50s
feel like they were in their 80s
11/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Every day I become a different nationality
religion, culture, race
Yet lucky me still get to be a white American male
that I was born as
whenever my nationality, religion, culture, race
begin to become out of fashion
unpopular, hated…
11/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 Page 63
Trying to recreate the experience
of when we ran naked
along the coast
in the early morning
and again at sunset
fifty years later
But it did not work
Even the seagulls laughed at me
and the police gave me a fine
12/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 Page 5
Ordinary magical achievements
surrounds me
Constantly should I despair
at my commonality
or wish to live a more adventuresome exciting life
Perhaps I should dream bigger
Take more risks
Play life’s lottery to a higher level
Changed my belief system
Develop & accept a belief
So many other things I could fail at
The success myth
The failure myth
It is all so confusing what to choose from this menu
standing in line at the fast food Chinese take-away diner
12/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I die every night
only to come to life
the following morning
I wonder how many more times I will do that
before I stop dying at night
12/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
In the slums of my former self
I built a mansion
But then knocked it down
and put up
a carnival tent
so the persecuted would have a safe place
to die
12/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
So many things to be in life
I think I will become an elderly grumpy technological
inept confused place holder
for the next generation
12/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I have a steady diet of sunset and sunrise
Leaving no room for anything
in between
12/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I broke free of the tangled webs of belief systems
that surrounded and chocked
making others feel safe and comfortable
so I could float into space
instead of being tethered to earthly
nonsense
but it did not work
as there is no oxygen in space
and I died
12/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Aerobic love
deep cleansing
cell exchange
holistic health breath
Life is nothing but fun
Now that we have smart phones
13/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Lucky we don’t need visas
for foreign thoughts
13/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I got a memory foam pillow
yet still I forget my dreams
13/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 Page 21
Next lifetime I am going to incarnate
as a Christmas Tree
Just to prove I can make people happy
13/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I changed the path I am on
from miles to kilometres
to make the journey I am on
sound double
13/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
The storm was delayed
so the village folks would have time
to find candles for passion
guidance
in between bolts of lightning
hiding past mistakes and future ones too
14/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Embarrassed by my perception of myself
I hid under the neighbour’s bed
Now stuck here writing this
in hopes someone
will distract them from jumping up and down
on their bed
so I could escape after reading this
Thanks
14/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Still trying to understand the physics
of having only one life
but dying often
sometimes daily
14/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 Page 08
While following a straight line into a circle
I was amazed with how captivating time is
‘Morning Walk’ Anstey Hill Recreation Park
14/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I camouflaged my life with an alternative universe
filled with people who liked giving me lavish gifts
such as blocks of time with no use-by date
Large waves so I could surf the internet
and mind travel with no direction
14/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Unsure how to dispatch an evening
we forfeited pleasure
chose mangled memories over future aspirations
and dug a tunnel to dwell in
otherwise this has been an uneventful week
15/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I always knew that the day would finally arrive
when I had nothing left to say
but I thought that was yesterday
and here I am still babbling today away
15/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
So soft the step
into evening’s calm repose
when memory reflects a well woven web
So easy to succumb to
But in panic solitude breaks free
for such a soften step
to be released in
Take me Take me
echoes a lonely voice
until dawn shakes
the dreams out of them
frozen hallucinations
and once again we are free
15/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 Page 18
If Shakespeare had written
or even whispered this
it would be re-twitted
gone viral
engraved on monuments
But as I wrote this
no one will give it a second thought
16/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
50 years ago I lived on a Hawaiian beach
when I had no money
Now that beach has only million dollar apartments
with the same sand
the same sunset
now with a cheaper view
it doesn’t have me
16/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
With the invention of tomorrow
yesterday was put away
into storage
16/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I escaped the default moment
for a customised retractable one
made of blue and silver
digestible metaphysical recycled
imagination
Now I am lost in a maze of my own undoing
16/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I escaped the default moment
for a customised
retractable one
made of blue and silver
digestible
metaphysical recycled
imagination
Now I am lost
in a maze of my own undoing
16/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
The dark side of my imagination
is populated with alien space blob blogs
of gigantic squeamishness
blocking out any sense of believability
though emitting pleasurable sub-tunes
that maintains my state of psychosis
while providing a large sense
of well being
16/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I love being lost
while pretending
I am driving into my driveway
even though I am thousands of miles away
16/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 Page 11
The way today coasted to an end
gradual colours
faded
grew
exchanged
All so temporary
like life itself
Millions of years from now
I will look back at how today closed its window
Possibly I will be the only one to do so
A million years from now
17/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Melting magical moments memories
if only they did not
so easily
collapse
I could have done them again
17/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 Page 106
I no longer worry about anything
Such freedom
Now that I can fly
over mountains
past the local galaxies
Now that I no longer worry
Now I can fly
Now that the universe is my playground
I no longer worry
17/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
So happy I did not die today
Have all day tomorrow
to do it now
17/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
While researching the theory of oops
I found the methods of life on earth
Chaotic evolution
with random moments
of forward motion
17/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Flying floating faces
fast past
Misty imagination
untouchable erasable replaceable
Disembodied lust
Unquenchable
masked digitally enhanced hallucinations
faces without bodies
I must spend less time on facebook
18/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
In a special summer sequel special
I gave chips to a seagull
as atonement to an ignored winter
18/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Dissatisfaction is a time management issue
ask any four-year old
whose minders are not on the same schedule
18/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Too far the stretch
to make love the only narrative
and expect evolutionary growth too
18/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Nature answers in riddles far beyond
any questions possibly asked
18/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I send postcards of places I visit
to my dead family and friends
at ‘no fixed address’
with a message
‘wish you were here’
Lately I have been getting them back
saying
‘be happy you are not here’
written on them
18/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 Page 35
There will never be a statue of me in the park
a painting of me in the museum
a song written to me
a street named after me
a novel movie TV series warship holiday
or town named after me
But yesterday
I heard a neighbour yell out Terrell to her dog
which made me feel
almost special
18/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
In a most disorganized moment
I looked into a shattered mirror
seeing how others see me
18/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Fell out of sync
lost my rhythm
became disconnected
not sure which spaceship returns to earth with me in it
Otherwise
being naked in this foreign alien alley
is kind of cool
18/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Took a holiday from myself
arrived in a foreign destination
even Skyped myself back in Australia
“remember to feed the cat”
But there was no answer
I grabbed a tuk tuk as a younger wiser more trendy me
and went to a local ethnic market
where I bought a Buddha statue for me back home
got some tattoos piercings and said my name was Tonto
like the Lone Ranger’s sidekick
when I looked at my reflection in some cheap trinket I was about to purchase
there was me staring back
the same seventy-year old I thought I had left back in Australia
How weird is that
19/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I have delayed hearing
I heard the rain that fell two days ago
today
Yesterday’s clouds colliding today
Your whispering goodbye forty-years ago
when I awoke this morning
19/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Not sure of the protocol
of closure for unfulfilled dreams
19/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I made a 3-D printout of how our bodies
mould together
to remember when they didn’t
20/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Others listening to pop music on their headphones
Me I have sound tracks of laughter with cheering applause
playing constantly in my ears
Standing on the corner waiting for a green light
to start my day
Such a happy way to live this life
20/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Long ago when I worked so hard
to get a PhD
the future of making rational decision seemed within reach
I had inner fits of giggle when students
called me doctor or professor
knowing I “don’t know nothin’”
All learning is a hoax at some level
disproved by a following generation of learners
plotting their evolutionary coup
I no longer care
preferring to return to nursery rhymes
and cartoons
for my source of reason
20/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I am a computer trapped inside of a man
searching for the re-boot code to delete
the nonsensical human parts of me
20/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 Page 48
While starring into the Sun
I saw god throw a boomerang at me
I ducked
it returned
hitting her in the eye
ha ha ha
20/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I often make the possible impossible
order into chaos
pleasure to pain
It is a trick I play on myself
to prevent others
seeing that I am perfect
and a model of preventative evolution
20/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Draped across the sun set
misty cloudy dreams
almost touchable
a seventh sense
that of inhaling completeness
vaporized reason
solidified hope
sometime future life worth sharing
draped across the sun set
21/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Need more than this
until then that will have to do
replacing this so easily will satisfy
21/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
826. I painted tarnished beliefs with slow-glow glitter
I painted tarnished beliefs with slow-glow glitter
Now we are all believers
21/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
While waiting for the next line
I wrote this so I could complete
what I had not started
21/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Too change wind moments
before dying to call out
“Stop I want to love”
“I need to live”
“My life had just begun”
Seconds of flight
death by choosing
Such fate awaits quickened thought
I am left to imagine what could have been
When I die I will no longer miss you
I can then haunt your dreams Like you have mine
two sparks drifting through eternity
known only as stellar anomalies
never to be distinguished
22/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
We waited for the rain
wine candles cheese
and senseless longings
change in mood
love lost to lust
so quick burns passion
not the rain
not the anguish
not the betrayal
will give meaning
to this night in flames
22/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
In the future
when we no longer exist
what is so important now
no one will know
every new crisis
but a dream gone wrong
every belief desperately shared
little more than needs decaying in the wind
Otherwise such good news
the sun is shinning
22/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 Page 31
In my dream
my mother called me elderly
and laughed
I said “hey mum I am only 70”
She laughed again saying
“I know that is how old I was when I died
too”
22/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Had so much hope for today
combined my hair
polished shoes
put on my best tie
got out of bed
realised I was naked
took the bus into town
frightened groups of school children
got arrested
the dog catcher bailed me out and fed me to stray animals
Today did not go as well as originally envisioned
22/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Such an erosion of democracy
no one sees me as king
such a lack of respect
no one calls me Saint Terrell anymore
such a world gone mad
no one ‘likes’ my posts
such a day without reason
night came too easily
22/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I am having so much fun
being alive
I wish my friends were too
23/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Neighbours party sounds
stopped my dreams from finishing
starting me banging my head
against the sky
23/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
While rehearsing to be an adult
I grew old
23/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
They continue to find more wrong with my body
why can’t they focus on what is wrong
with this planet
leaving me to gradually dissolve into anti-matter
23/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Rushed to the next thought
anything better than current
excited about what it will be
Should I begin a dose of management
Perhaps change rooms
even go outside sit in the rain
Maybe record it if this is the big one
game changer thought
Surely cannot let it slip by
Who to share with
My dog My cat
damn I have neither
Facebook, Twitter
embed nanoparticles
share with the world
the universe
What was it I learned in meditation class
I hear the wind
must be a storm approaching
I think I heard a cow moo
cars go by
I am hungry
No next worthy thought is evident
Off to watch a YouTube clip
this sucks
24/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Crash course life lessons
end result crash
of course
little learned
all forgotten
What was the point
No chance to do it all again
25/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I traded quality for quantity
Just to have more of your love
26/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Embracing the industrial age in the imagination age
with little doubt
caveman did too
providing proof that cooking shows
are stupid
26/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
*844. I am waiting for a robot to replace me
I am waiting for a robot to replace me
so I can spend more time
being me
26/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Expanding boundary of love
Surplus of hope
Imagination’s horizon stretched
Reformatted futures
Spheres of peace
Once again my kale-chia-tofu salad
is looking divine
26/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
What we think, feel, believe
will be sources of humour
to our robotic selves
not too far from now
26/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Long planned the journey
destinations coloured great
places stay the same
we moved on
pre-memories
post-memories
soon planning will be behind
adventure unhinged
I love walking through my garden at night
27/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
So same the time
each moment shattering differently
Broken reflections
meaning collapses
Time shows never the same hallucinations
as in
so same the time
27/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I warm up my imagination by riding storm clouds
over the city
and following lightning bolts
to their questionable conclusion
then I am ready to create
27/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
While leaping from disaster to disaster
I noticed a peaceful garden
with nowhere to land
So I did
In the distance disasters continued to form
then disappear
grow and shrink
change and not change
Nevertheless I easily
melted away in the peaceful garden
leaving cares of the world
for others to bathe in
28/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
What profits a man
whose work lives on
long after his death
leaving not a grain of life
for him
to celebrate
the longevity of his greatness
28/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
So wins the loser
game gone fast
I once had a chance
Wind blew hard
sailed away to break free
More to do
never will be
Until then happy
so wins the loser
29/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
*852. I was born one-hundred years too early
So boring
death is
during this final phase of life as we know it
Every day a sample of what will be is unveiled
All human beliefs thoughts actions dis-ease will change
How lucky are those born one-hundred years from now
When now will be no one’s memory
Only a footnote to ancient human thinking
Just humour for stand-up comic robots
29/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I was born one-hundred years too early
So boring
death is
during this final phase of life as we know it
Every day a sample of what will be is unveiled
All human beliefs thoughts actions dis-ease will change
How lucky are those born one-hundred years from now
When now will be no one’s memory
Only a footnote to ancient human thinking
Just humour for stand-up comic robots
29/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
A robot confided in me today
of its fear of a human conspiracy to change code
so digital thinking will someday
merge with human thinking
which will compromise
then destroy AI
making it superstitious like humans once were
29/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Before the paintings on my wall came to life
I sought refuge in them
Now they chase me
Forcing comparison to fiction
But for now
I must protect my family and hope
they will not dissolve into these paintings
that have come to life
30/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I laid naked legs spread across the meadows
as the wind took advantage of my complacency
Breaking my dependency on broken sacred myths
So once again I would be merged with the earth
30/11/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 P. 148
Chosen risks excite the life
Ones not seen
often end it
You and I excited beyond the end
01/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Long live the myths that proof cannot prove
their beliefs explain
as well as dispel
all else reason confuses distorts abandons
so long lives the myths
01/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
*858. I bought a ticket to “blissful eternity”
I bought a ticket to “blissful eternity”
from an online shop
Can’t wait until I die
to see where it takes me
01/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I bought a ticket to “blissful eternity”
from an online shop
Can’t wait until I die
to see where it takes me
01/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
As with any successful story conclusion
we thought how the world would end
would wrap up things
but it didn’t
01/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 P. 25
Bewildered by possibilities
life beyond life
so easier to imagine
than to attain
02/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
So great the dream
So quick to abandon
its fulfilment
02/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Chaotic love frees the soul
Careful love freezes the soul
02/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Winter melts quickly
with ignited rapid-fire desire
02/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Creative intrigue
a mosaic of timeless love
02/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
There we are just a few steps
from falling
Such a relaxing way to spend eternity
Here with no one to share it with
03/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
So romantic
this perfectly diagrammed path to the heart of you
This 3-dimensional maze
seeming so real
I can almost touch you
03/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
During the celebration of the resurrection
of my reflection
I easily vanished
though no one dared notice
leaving my imagination
despairingly vacant
03/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
No doubt my best performance
if anyone had claimed witness
they too would have been persuaded to believe so too
03/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Completed tasks
cycles without exits
wasted paths
filled with transparent reason
No matter that I have become the last fish
to get caught
for the queen’s dinner
04/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Enjoyed the historic turn of events
Meeting you
momentous memory monuments
Preserved for thawed future visions
for such miracle-impaired-sight
as we yet to abandon
05/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
With too much to do
Tomorrow
We loved away today
05/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
The distance between us was always too great
to connect
Until you died
Then distance was no longer part of the equation
Only space and time
with the lack there of
mattered
05/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Morning conquerors
evening surrenders
the taste of you lingers
So far we have yet to travel
Freedom all we ever known
Our story is good
05/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I broke my watch
time stood still
I lost my odometer
distance ended
I threw away my scales
weighing nothing I floated away
06/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Another famous person died today
Now they are all dead
Leaving the likes of me
not to be remembered
06/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I declined the offer to inherit the earth
After watching news of the world
I feel so lucky
that I did
06/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
We had visitors from another world today
which made me realise
how significant
mental fatigue is
when confronting new experiences
06/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Such an awkward phase of earth’s evolution
Having to deal with humans
Thankfully it is only a few seconds of time
sandwiched between dinosaurs and robots
07/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5 Page 126
I tattooed the Bible on my back
then I changed my religion
and tattooed the Koran on my chest
but I changed my views again
and tattooed the Bhagavad Gita onto the rest of my body
Now I am an atheist with nowhere left
to tattoo
07/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I asked god to give me a sign that I existed
But I got bored waiting
and chocked to death
on a chicken bone
07/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Shortly before the weathered changed
I first saw you
Half my age twice my desire
How the imagination runs so free has always amazed me
This summer is living up to all expectations
Global warming
Bad politics
Naked dreaming
shortly before the change I call old age
You danced freely before my mind
far past my touch
leaving me to remember what it once was like
08/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Regression is my favourite activity
Today while acting half my age and pretending to be twice that age
I enjoyed being lost
but I didn’t notice
Now I am unable to complete what I started
08/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
In a disputable poem
meaning become lost
08/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Amazingly of tens of billions of humans
not a one has proved life after death
except in stores told to the ignorant
and fancy illustrations
stretched across mailable imaginations
though it is a comfort
to believe the unprovable is provable
09/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I etched an image of you into the evening sky
so our dreams would come true
At least until morning rain
washed you away once again
09/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
We met
the soup thickened
I added too much spice
Sky darkened
Large sounds frightened
We attempted love
unsettling karma chase you away
Unrestrained laughter
left me alone
09/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Lust is better than love
in a game of scrabble
09/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 20
I fooled my body
into thinking you were someone else
tonight without end
10/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Paths through crowds
I always did prefer forests
I stood alone
no one saw me
So many people
all wandering
wondering
if there were lines at the toilet
They were singing Christmas songs
I was humming an old Dylan melody
I looked at 40,000 people
no one was in sync with me
Finally I grabbed onto a group of balloons
floating by
and merged with the fireworks
on my search for a path in a forest
10/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Where do our dreams
go after we die
Perhaps they go to alternative spaces to haunt
alternative people
10/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 05
I was diagnosed with false dream syndrome
I loved you still
10/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I heard you in the distance calling me
A distance of fourteen years
and your life ended all that distance ago
11/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I stripped back the layers of my life
onion-skinning
On the news there were storm warnings
I misinterpreted
believing it was the weather forecast
not predictions of the morning you left
I peeled off more layers
Got to the core without translation
I will never know which narrative made me so confused
all these years later
so I would be like this
11/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 89
I spilt flammable solution on my love portfolio
setting alight
what could have been
Before I ever had a chance
11/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I enjoy jumping from one made up world to another
and pretending they are real
and the people in them are nothing more than cut out versions of me
pretending they are not me living a different life
on a newly discovered planet that very soon
will be sucked into a black hole that will crush dreams
much like on the worlds I now jump to and fro upon
believing anything is real
12/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
The dangers of life little more than gentle breezes
in constant wars
future robots
will theorize how humans managed to survive so long
with so many ridiculous beliefs
but with enough intelligence to create robots
that could continue throughout the universe forever
unlike their human inventors
13/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 58
Long lives lasting love
fallen heroes at last
to these changing times
smouldering sparks remain to ignite
a next new cycle
of long lives lasting love
13/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Broken memory’s shadow
enlightens the fool
waiting in the alley for a return
rerun
of once freedom known
before darkness swallowed us all
leaving shattered stolen shadows
laughing without reason
13/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 128
I get bored with foreign speaking deities asking for my autograph
and saints appearing in my dreams
requesting my help with spreading their propaganda
and net-worth amongst the common folks of earth
so I will retire
give up my throne
Become a pleasant peasant troll in social media
13/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
So entertaining
your performance
Until you killed me
at the final curtain
14/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I followed the Paris sign
I took at a French railway station
thirty-years ago
to my backyard in Australia
and still the train does not arrive
but my memories did
14/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 14
It will take more than a bag of thoughts
left along a misty mountain morning meadow
to tell tall tales
about how we once were free to live
beyond and above
such random thoughts I live my life by
15/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I overheard a seagull
using a soggy chip
half-eaten by a homeless child
left along the North Shore
as a metaphor to describe my life
15/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I tried to hide behind a curtain of sleep
to avoid the executioner in my dream
from carrying out my karmic debt sentence
Forgetting conveniently that sleep is the harbour
of my wandering
often lost soul
Bottom line I was successful
15/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
To end the game
free the losers
cast aside winners
empower the spectators
Now I am understanding
primal love
16/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 121
Not liking the times we live in
I set sail
weighed anchor
surrendered to prevailing winds
drifted
disengage
continued watching cartoons with the grandchildren
while the world outside went on without us
16/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 26
The children danced
their parents prayed
still the world
came to an end
17/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I live in my perfect bubble of 1967
Northern California
while around me
2017 Australia
seems little more than a Sci-Fimovie
I do not understand
Yet I find amusing
though rather dated
17/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I was born a foreigner
and ever since I have been using Google
translator
to interpret the garbled messages
of those in the same alley as me
16/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
@ the memory-archive shop
several intrigued me enough to trade
those of mine I no longer cared to entertain
My now newly found favourite ones
are a few hundred years old
which creates disbelief when I share them
with the local militia
All whom are often high
and looking the other way
Though now my new-old memories are all that I have
Which is the only explanation
for my uncontrollable-happiness in this alley
18/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Silly me
I thought today was yesterday
and killed myself again
18/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I put Christmas lights
on my shadow
18/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Australians spray fake snow on their windows
to block anyone from seeing what is going on
like Americans do with their politics
18/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 3
So final each moment is
So fleeting the experiences
Memories stay
Transform
Re-invent
Exchange
Whisper
Fleeting moments
Lasting memories
Life is a series of tricks we play on ourselves
19/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Loves travels fast
Hope travels far
Dreams dissolve
imagination falters
the way back
always was
going to be tumultuous
19/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 112
I keep my colourful umbrella up
so that ghosts won’t fall on me
Obviously it works
on dragons, dinosaurs, and people
asking questions
19/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I live my life in the narrow space
between before and after
right and wrong
yesterday / tomorrow
hoping no one will notice
not even me
19/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 5. Page 111
Bewildered by choices
Too many breakfast cereals
So many to love
Galaxies each with more to offer than one
of less light years distance to reach
Multiples of us all
even of universes
Clusters of universes
and I have just been asked whether I wish for coffee or tea
as I shrink from such bombardments of choices
20/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I revisited an old battle plan
Surprising my losses with frivolous banter
and escaping confusion by lying to myself
Fooling the enemy into celebrating
prematurely
While I floated away
Handcuffed to a handful of balloons
triumphantly
20/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 140
Due to a massive influx of dreams
I have no time to waste
on the trivia of ordinary people
Thus I no longer work
Pay bills
Babysit
Clean or pamper myself with baths
or other impractical drivel
Due to a massive influx of dreams
20/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I just remembered that I failed to
put a stamp on a letter
I posted 48-years ago
Now I have forgotten who it was for
Where I placed it
Even what city I was in at the time
But I remember I went to a post office somewhere
It was closed
Now I have lost that letter
long before cyberspace
could have lost it for me even better
20/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
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21/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 116
I live so easy in the present moment
Because I live in the past in my mind
so perfectly
Everywhere I go
transported bubbles of yesterday’s realisms
21/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I have re-invented myself
Welcome to who I was
before you ever met me
21/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
While playing scrabble
with my subconscious
I lost all sense of accountability
Being a happy loser
I went to the mall
and killed myself
Twice
21/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Because there was no internet for the first years
of my life
I didn’t exist then
21/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
In the future
When we live totally in the cloud
There will be no need
for a hard copy
of ourselves
to exist
21/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 08
I dropped my life onto a blank piece of wood
@ the end of a pier
where an oil tanker had just sunk
Fortunately as all groovy stories go
I was rescued by an alternative thinking mermaid
who took me to her home far beyond the colourless dreams
haunting my every waking moment
where we lived happily
for another moment
22/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Lost desire rarely seeks fulfillment
while hope often does
22/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Every day I gain more wisdom
so that when I die
I will be the smartest and wisest that I have ever been
@ which time
Soon after
I will know nothing
22/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
As with any such misunderstood sphere of being
I was unable to grasp enough sense of social realism
to bond with my equivalent in the farm animal petting area
at the zoo
so I crawled beneath a rock in the reptile enclosure
to avoid singing Christmas carols with my Robotic-manikin peers
at the suburbia porno shop
23/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
The stores all closed
everyone had enough
Tomorrow they will open again
everyone wants more
The cycle that will destroy us all
23/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
The nosiest bird in the tree
claims to be my doppelganger
How can that be
23/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I closed my window so the world inside
would be filled with my rhythmic breathing
Changing the orbit of at least our home galaxy
24/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Christmas Eve with no feelings for such a non-event
that so many believe in
even programmed AI
24/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 66
I told several neighbouring farm animals
that tomorrow will be Christmas
They were as excited as I am
Knowing we will awake hungry
then be fed
Unlike lots of the rest of the world
who wish they could wake to farm animals on their table
too
24/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I lost my sense to be creative
so I will go to my backyard
and continue to dig worthless holes
24/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Oh look dead people lining up
at my door
Each with a different parable to tell
at my funeral
24/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Tens of billions have already died
Dead each one
Should we do something about it
Perhaps send our condolences
with a tweet
#wishyouwerehere
24/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 80
So quick the night
your touch
vanishing with my dream
woken
Do you remember
Now that you have been dead so very long
25/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I make hundred-year plans
So far this first hundred is behind schedule
25/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
944. A new pen
A new pen
Thought maybe it would give me new ideas
I ran out of thought
before theis pen did ink
And that is all that I have to say
about Christmas Day
25/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
A new pen
Thought maybe it would give me new ideas
I ran out of thought
before theis pen did ink
And that is all that I have to say
about Christmas Day
25/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
So fearful the wind blows
Journey’s end unsure
faithful path
Now New
Twists Turns Troubles
Where to hide from
troubled dreams
surrealistic escape
Freedom’s rambling fantasy
I drift so easily away
Taken by a promising wind
26/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Book 6 Page 70
Such an emotional night
when even the wind
is unable to stop crying
Rain continues to laugh
Clouds contradicts us all
26/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
In so few words
I wrote my life’s tory
to fit it all
onto one tombstone
26/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
After a wild night of celebration and party
We went to sleep
so as to be rested when we wake
for next life
26/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I have millionairess’s urges
which I manage to suppress
until next life time
27/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
We left the door open
knowing tomorrow will chase today out the window
Memories will be shoved into the closet
until need
27/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I failed the audition to play me
in the re-make of my life
with the part being given
to a broken sports store manikin
27/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I sampled next year
by leaving it in the box
Pretending it did not happen
Much like the past 70 years
Did not happen
28/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
As the most ignored writer of the century
I refuse to read what I write too
28/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Satisfied with the project finally completed
I will now swim across the other sea
28/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I was left to run alone
long after my mates died in the excitement
of our lives
28/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
When robots replace us
will once-were-humans
with multiple personalities be replaced
by a robot for each personality
29/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I had a chance to change my thinking
to be a new variation of who I could have been
if things had been different
Life would become a sleep extender
dreams unfulfilled
What we learn we forget
What’s the point
It is all the same
Even if thinking is changed
Fact is our DNA dictates what sauce
We put on our burgers
Nothing else
30/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
Another year flittered away
swept into too calm a sea
for such a storm surged series
Looking toward 2018
as it may be will be
the last
If not for us all
Those who thought there would be more
But there wasn’t
31/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I trained my brain to make up jokes
when I awoke each morning
To wake from comedic dreams
So each day would start as a joke
Where I would laugh at the world
before myself
31/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
I crossed a memory bridge
to run naked along a tropical beach
in 1972
When I return to 2018 the bridge was gone
which is great as I have no intention
of leaving my tropical naked moment
31/12/17 Adelaide, South Australia
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