Pink Bombs of Peace

Bombs Away baby!
Pink bombs of peace
Kill them with kindness
Give them some treats
Books can be dangerous
If you know how to read
Libraries can be violent places
They plant those thinking seeds
You know how it works, the DNA of thought
Thoreau, Gandhi and MLK were wrought

Let’s spend lots of money to keep from being bored
But kill no more people to feed our vicious Lord
Let’s build and grow; plant seeds and sow
Paint crooked smiles on dirty round faces
Show them we love them in all the right places
All the same meanness makes our world duller
Take the gray and splash on some color
Pink bombsight aplomb
The people look like ants
Bathed in a pink-light calm
We will have gingersnap medals
Surely heroes I think
We will be in the pink

Creatively Late

The alarm rang and I re-set it
One and-a-half hours later
When I put on my shoes I heard the birds chirping
Breathless windows were wide open
It was so hot
I kissed my wife with butterfly kisses and woke her
Just enough to not really wake her

Opening the car door I looked up
Against the pink sky a blue heron flying
Surely a good omen

The traffic was a little heavier
Parking was full so I parked way the hell out
I chose to go right instead of left and spied a trail
Worn in the grass field it forked
I chose the way less traveled
Crossing the road I was stunned to see a woman, Lisa
I had a thing for years ago, we flirted often
There was sexual tension between us but I never asked her out
Because I was with someone else

Walking in the pink light was against the side of the building
I realized things were in point of fact quite wonderful
I need to go in late more often

Cup of Darkness

It is a perfect night for fireflies
but we have no fireflies
and no Northern Lights either

The cars shout their asphalt echo
As they stream across the valley
borne on their river of light

my dancing head scares me
reflected in a stop sign
who goes there?

the lady on the corner who is never home
paces on the phone
then loudly lock latches her door

My dog stares at this audible intrusion
gives her big dog bark
And mutters a few girly growls under her breath

We keep walking
Drinking our cups of liquid darkness
This thing is mostly complete