I’m famous, but I wasn’t supposed… Nor did I care to, or attempt in… None of us were, just citizens. It would appear that I wasn’t, bu… Just pretend,

We are Greek, in a democracy We are not pawns for autocracy, We the characters of an Odyssey, Are not your lies for tooth fairy, We are humans with lives you prete…

Iron doves and death The world can sort It’s sordid mess. I am not alone Who does not have

We were... Once In the middle of the night I wrot… While you pretended to be asleep After I was. and awake suddenly i…

The issue is, We, those of us who did not come h… Willingly We’re too red And white

We are the ones Who could not get away Not for nothing But for the state Not for coffee

It is raining beautiful And loud. Kind that turns the Cars around Little branches Snap

I dreamed once, For true naive That we would walk Sanguine and silly Besides the trees

I want to marry you That’s the way it is, true Not just paper, or for show In the way only we know It’s true, already though

To truth, It shows What love it is that glows, That wagons wheel, Birdsong Cardinal flash, river stone Garden grow

As the wind settles Eyes grow dim, tired still In the morning we begin again In so doing, if you can Please do not pretend...

I was free once, And nobody cared an inch what I’d… That’s how I liked it, that’s wha… Now, for a year or more, The state knocking at my door,

We are all, who never willingly to… Blue light home, flashing yellow s… The world in between, on whose sha… Flashes yellow and red, and spends… Intruding time, we cannot fix

I saw a dream that cried Riding the bus, passed the tractor… And construction to the outside of… Not a farm but a field A small ranch with a slight mess i…

The only promises I’ll make Are the ones you’ve already seen i… I swear, on my life. Paradox of poem and silly sky So is life, on faith we dive.