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​holywood

dream creativity
if available in waking
would make every man
a dante or shakespeare
wrote frederic hedge

but dream writers
in heaven not earth
with producers
actors and
audience of angels

drawing on your
memories and any
faces they choose

die and become
star in mortal dreams
star in holywood

earth time is
not dream time
many minutes
of rem are few
in heaven

dream
as screenplay
one page
one minute

israel omen

netanyahu indicted
but elected
promised retribution
war on seven fronts

donald trump indicted
but elected?
promised retribution
war on seven fronts?

​line of fire

strange symmetry
rows of burned cars
lahaina
rows of burned cars
israel
​
force of nature
folly of man
murders in a row
is folly of man
a force of nature?

monk mode

penance
for sins
against planet
buzz cuts
for everything

small screens
small cars
better still
two wheels
not four

brown rice
kale, tofu
mandarin orange
but no
mandarin palace

sensible shoes
flip phone
four ounces
of beer or wine
if that

neurotic

​neurosis
big in seventies

woody allen
obsessions
sex, love, god
meaning of life

she’s neurotic
she’s adorable
needs a hug

see analyst
lie on couch
new yorker
cartoons

neurotics
eclipsed by
depression
bipolar
crazy homeless

is neurosis
just a first world
white people
thing?

paradise lost

stupid girl
stupid boy
all you had you wanted
all you had you wasted

every one of you
the devil inside
gas up with greed
cee oh two

hellfire
paradise cali
hellfire
paradise maui

carbon stinks
to high heaven
lucifer with torch
at the gate

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Image  Filet antique lace, 1918, public domain