Monsters

I’ve never got into monsters, spooks, and the likes
Life is hard enough without inventing such things.
Like being shot at over Korea, or the screeching tires
of your oldest son’s last moments, the curses and screaming
rage of your father…these are monsters enough.

You Can’t Be Neutral

It ain’t easy
These long trips between nowhere and doubt
Thinking of you

As the bus surges and shakes
Throwing me off balance
As soon as I find a seat and

Settle down the bus turns
Smashing me against the window
I cannot see beyond that glass

When the bus finally stops
Lurching me forward into the seats ahead
I am still no closer to an answer