Friday, June 25, 2010

Blank Wall


A mind closed
to the Tao is like
a blank wall.

Solid.
Inanimate.
Unmoving.
Yet always
wearing away.

1 comment:

Dr. Mike said...

Ossos

I see your lips darkening the wall
In city streets in the rain

All the clichés of agitprop
And sometimes your lips move

Reciting their fascist slogans
Staining the wall with blood

So many crossing the border
Horizon share their own flat line

Homeless in condo corridors
With somebody’s baby for sale

Your lips purse from the gas
Seeping from the stove inside

Rooms stripped bare or bruised
Purple from too many beatings

Each kiss a Judas before betrayal
Outside a stranger’s pick-up

Where her johns come and go
The baby abandoned on a green couch

[Disposable Poem June 25, 2010]
Dr. Mike