Everything Optional

Time to turn on
the scenario generator

Plug in the possibility equation

Rev up rampant speculation

Scales will be provided
to weigh options

However no guarantees
will be rendered
that you will embrace
the final product produced

All we can do
is tip toe through
the minefield
of unforeseen
plot twists

Fall and Rise

Soldiers rejoice

War is over

Arise comrades
on both sides of the line
and forever exit
your blood stained trenches

Time to finally
put away the big guns
and parade on home

Give Mom a big hug

Kiss the girl next door

and before
you lay your grateful head
on your greatly missed bed
say a silent prayer
for friends and foes
all equally dead

Honor those souls

who now sleep forever

beneath well manicured
carefully marked
plots of Earth

Waiting patiently
for the angels to play reveille
so they may rise again
and forever forget
their scars of war

Glorious Wetness

Stop running from the rain !!!

You ain’t gonna melt

like that bitch of a witch

from that classic flick

who had it coming
but I digress
Take the time

from your neatly pressed life

to open wide
Allow the drops

to bounce off

your parched tongue
Treat your crusty self

to a full service soaking
and let yourself get

gloriously wet

Step Up

 

 

Go or no go?

Yes or no?

Languishing over options

Pondering consequences

Circular adventures

Nada resolved

Our grand task force du jour
again needs be adjourned to revisit
every implication permutation

Convene another meeting or two

Is it any wonder
nothing ever gets done?

 

Well Greased Wheel

These turbulent days
the high road
is definitely
the less traveled trail

Loud and controversial
with a dash of naughty
is where it’s at

but

there is still something
to be said
for riding
the straight and narrow path

For while you’ll never be
a front page troubled celebrity

you’ll make it to the end

with your self respect intact

unbloodied and unscathed