I am 88.
I need much equipment:
I need my walker
so I can shuffle about,
a lift chair to stuff me in the wa

I will not wear shorts, wing-tip s
I will continue to be grateful tha
I will not listen to any salesman
I will quit telling people how I
I will not say, “I don’t know wha

Florida, 2000 A.D.
A panting tongue of a tiring natio
lapping a tawdry cornucopia
poured like broken baubles down th
through the northern end of Southe

Argument from Design
God’s antelopes have eyes placed f
And horizontal pupils, features th
Employ to see wide spans and speed
From lurking predators they’ve eas

The Anguish of Action
We frame and then pursue specific
But find results are not what we h
Christ advocated love to all his l
Who then loved some —turned tigers

Gimme That Ole-Time Religion I
As one New Yorker said, the guy w
You in New York, your wallet as h
At least has goals, unlike the oth
Who kill and maim and have no aim

Bank Caesar
An angry man,
conceived and birthed in cars,
weaned on dumpsters,
reared in shattered rooms

Electrocutions show our love of ri
We give the favored one a kingly f
As well as pen and ink so he can w
The thoughts that we will prize wh
We see his needs are carefully add

A raptor’s visage,
Assyrian bas relief;
yet in the eyes, the poise,
a stately acquiescence;
opulence carved

The Old Floridian Non-Conformist
The young prize individuality
And choose to feature navels and t
But that, I think, becomes confor
When choices made are what a milli