Will I Never

When will I grate all the cheese before the mold sets in?

                                                             before the old gets in?

 

When will I use all the coupons before they expire?

                                                            before their appeal tires?

When will I do all the work before it starts to pile?

                                                   before it raises my bile ?

When will I put all the photos in albums before the kids grow up?

                                                                            before the memories slow up?

The answer is never

because, just as ever,

time will not slacken or sicken

its downhill pace ever quickens

All I can do for the how

is to live in the now.

universe

Rob and I have been asked to be the featured speakers at the Mudpuppy's next Beat Night on September 29th. Rob has a much larger collection of original works  than I do, so I will publish here the poems I will be including that night.

                                                               

I am the universe

engendered as a woman

                  for your convenience.

I was there

in that perfect oneness of all stuff

before the cosmic explosion put light years between us.

We are still one;

subatomic particles in unpredictable cloud orbit

around the nucleus

                           the unseen force

                           holding us

                           tethering us together.

Every bit

the same

as every other bit

Energy is just matter moving really, really, really fast.

Matter is just energy on a bad day.

If there is no distinction

between where I end and you begin,

then it was all there in the Calvin Klein Commercial

                            not so much in the Radiohead lyrics.