SURFING AT NIGHT
I had a dream
in which I’m floating
in the ocean,
on a bed of blue-green algae.
There was algae as far as I could see,
and I heard a voice say,
“The difference
between living and dying,
being and non-being
is just where you catch the wave.”
THE NECTAR OF THE GODS?
The water we drink
is the same that Dionysus,
Buddha and Jesus drank.
And the same
That the dinosaurs did, too.
Ditto for the air we breathe.
THE EVOLUTIONARY RACE
I run the beach
six miles in two hours,
pathetically slow,
but not bad for a sixty-five year old guy
with two knee replacements.
Then I pass a horseshoe crab
that has gone almost nowhere
in roughly half a billion years.
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
If the Tyrannosaurus Rex
could change into a chicken,
As contemporary
evolutionary theory holds
Then
anything is possible,
I guess.
DO NOT DESPAIR
If you ever
feel directionless,
remember that every hour
brings us 43,000 miles
closer to Globular Cluster M13
in the constellation Hercules.
Talk about goal orientation!
THE AVERAGE PERSON
Every second,
the average person
has 100 million
sensations bombarding
their body like so many
telephone messages,
with their head acting
as a switch board to sort
out the data.
When you read this poem
do you sort of get
a busy signal?