Lao Tzu, Thoreau and Dr. King were jailed. But though they’re dead,people still know and even sing a lot of what they said. King was killed. And Christ. And we have made them holidays.The others willed us poetry to tell us of their ways. Rosa Parks declined the seat her driver said to take.For Joan…

for Kevin You have felt tugged, as by some foreign forcetaking you to the exotic landof Good, where everyone’s self-made and livesas an aristocrat, then pulled to Better,then Best, stretched past your limit to Beyond.And that great force has made your Soul feel taller.But when you’re on the brink of being snappedin two, my good…

I’ve reached the age of forty-twoAnd squint to read small print and clocks;Can barely thread a needle through,And Mondays, slip on mismatched socks.But while most shapes are getting blurred,My eyesight getting worse and worse,Intangibles seem less obscured.Nevertheless I curse the curse For though I see the dusk aheadAnd wish with all my ebbing mightIt were…

I used to enjoy games like Hide-’n’-Seek. The last time, I recallsqueezing down, flat on my side,behind a chest of drawers along the wall in the middle of the house. I was concealed so wellI could hear everything, and, for the most part, see.And no one found me. And I fellasleep. At Ali Ali Income-Free…