Uncle• Show poetry

Think of a Tab cola on ice, and the ridiculous pride of a steel needle.
Think of a sterotype with a nose and smile.
I work hard to be predictable for you. You see me everyday and ask the same questions.
Please call me Uncle.


Loving the So-So:
I'm being woed by the bland side, it carries me
out on a lukewarm
tide. I'm being seduced by the spirit of mediocricy,
coaxed into a
slow moving orbit that's filled with blahs
and damp bangs.
From this viewpoint, miles above good & bad,
I applaud the average, and knell down to
kiss the ass of
everything and body
that is  
neither too much this way
or that.
I celebrate the C.

by me


'The Man Watching':

What we choose to fight is so tiny!
What fights us is so great!
If only we would let ourselves be dominated
As things do by some immense storm
we would become strong too, and not need names.

When we win it's with small things,
and the triumph itself makes us small.
What is extraordinary and eternal
does not want to be bent by us.

Whoever was beaten by an Angel
went away proud and stronger.
Winning does not tempt such a person.
This is how we grow: by being defeated, decisively,
by constantly greater beings.
(author unknown to me)  

Favorite songs: I Can't Forget & The Sisters of Mercy:  Leonard Cohen:

We read the world wrong, then say it has deceived us:
'forgot'

From: 'The Prophet'
"Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you
heals you sick self": Gibran

I've known the purity of pure despair: Theodore Roethke

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go:  

The dark has its own light. A son has many fathers.

In a dark time the eye begins to see    

It was one of those nights when you turn out the
lights and everything comes into view:           ACDC

It's never too late to start all over again: Steppenwolf

Only a paradox comes anywhere near to comphrehending the fullness of life:
C Jung

Silence is the language God speaks and everything else is a bad
translation: Thomas Keating

Live at the empty heart of paradox.
I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek. -Rumi

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. (Wizard of Oz)

I bow to fornicators discontented with their wives
I bow to crooked speech and lying talk
I bow to ungrateful children
I bow to wearers of the cloth who break their vows;
I bow to professors attached to their words
I bow to tramps who reject a home
I bow to the bums of insatiate whores

Partial Litany of
Rascal Teibetan Saint Drukpa

Things I remember that are still funny to me:
I'm 19, in the Army, a medic and we're in the field. A man has an infection and I'm trying to get him back to a field hosptial. I tell the Lt.
"Jimmy's balls are big as apples." The Lt. who doesn't want to be bothered with moving people around says, "He's got balls the size of apples? What the fuck does he have to complain about?"

"Are you worried? Do you have many 'what if' thoughts? You are identified with your mind, which is projecting itself into an imaginary future situation and creating fear. There is no way that you can cope with such a situation, because it doesn't exist. It's a mental phantom"
Eckhart Tolle