NEVER NEVER MIND©

TIMELESS

it is the day after yesterday

and surely the TV remote has too many buttons

the future is something to think about

technologists vaunt their expertise

a list of achievements fills many books

we are the beneficiaries

also of baneful effects unintended

and face a Pandorian cornucopia of more yet to come

white coats, suits, buttoned smocks and casual shirts

assure us

it is best to accept this bounty

while those in robes offer tickets to paradise

people who have spare time

who say forget it

none of this really matters

which is true

as far as truth goes

our most revered elder

cannot say who is in control

trees shed leaves

and so?

people shed tears

I do believe

privately perhaps

to avoid censure

no one has the experience

or can comprehend the situation

so I recommend a fresh look

to see just what is happening

 beyond computation or tradition

on the day before tomorrow

BANKING ON REALITY

in this world of trees, mosquitoes and traffic jams

a great peace descends

not in opposition

but simply as the overall fact

though unasked

can one be ungrateful?

history is irrelevant

deeds, heroes, martyrs and villains

gone

strivings of millennia realized in an instant

without mortgage

free of debt

gratitude?

yet in itself a debt

gone

all gone completely

and no one to take credit

a balance that comes to nothing

this peace is spontaneous laughter

trees, mosquitoes, Jack in the Box

being somehow indistinguishable

here on this clipboard

symbols dance

heritage of forgotten ancestors

cornice stones, grand stairways, plinth patter

laughing stock

trees, traffic, aurora borealis

meteorites

solar flares

ocean conveyor belt down for maintenance

Icelandic volcanoes take the rap

for melting ice caps

ice cubes clink

won't there be a final chord

tonic strong in the dominant key

sine and Pi stone

youthful dreams and headaches

dandelion fluff

a song of cats and horses

tossed to a summer wind

TAKE THE "B" TRAIN

if you wondered

what's all the excitement about, so noisy

on the sidelines

hoping the cheerleaders got everything they hoped for

but not you

first of all

majority rules

might is right

no point in getting beat up

for what

since no one seems to care about an invisible nothing

that will not go away

and you don't know what it is anyway

it's sort of like being a Jew in Hitler's Germany

maybe Work Makes Freedom after all

blood, sweat and tears

join the Party

yet still . . .

it won't go away

won't leave you alone

but to avoid being all alone

why not drift with the crowd

that certainly is easy

the crowd wants this

it wants that

dance the switcheroo

ending up with cold feet

nothing to lose so

back to what won't go away

it never was a secret

just rather rare

WHAT?

silence

WHAT?

silence

more silence

then suddenly

THIS AND THAT

gone

and then

that is me . . .

that is me . . .

that is me . . .

silence

these words don't know what

and you are not alone

silence

stick with it