Golden Mean

Baby, my porridge is not father’s:
 don’t take it all so much
 and improperly digest it.
Papa, my porridge is not Baby’s:
 it’s not so small to dismiss
 as a mere toddler’s trifling.
Oh, mama, can’t you see:
 I’m human.
Let us sup together;
 perhaps you aren’t so unbearable.

In a College Silo without Overalls

I’m taking classes. I realize I don’t have my overalls on. I must have left them in the bathroom. I excuse myself from class (which was a drag anyway). No they aren’t in the bathroom. So, I walk around in boxers, which isn’t so bad.

I go to the mall of the campus which functions like the Johnson center. They are going to be filming for a political rally. Some university staff asks me to refrain from entering that area because of my lack of pants.

I go outside and try another building module. This is a large, square empty room several stories high; the feel is of being in an abandoned silo. Here there is a metal stairway that’s torn and out in places; it’s just a broken stairway to nothing. I try to climb the stairs and it becomes an athletic struggle until I see the wrecked part of it. A couple of sophomoric guys come in an taunt me; eventually I realize are trying to get me to repeat a movie scene.

As I leave the building, the guys continue taunt me. One throws shit at me and it lands on my face and hair. “I’m a human being, too.” I say to express hurt feelings. A little later, I guess it’s clods of earth rather than shit.

I go into a little restaurant attached to the university. I’m not impressed with the place or the food I get. The guys there are stuck in their jobs, bleh.

I’m about to go on vacation with my family, but we only go for a day instead of the whole long weekend. That’s good because I have two papers due of the 24th.

Donald Duck Inflatable Arm–bands

Here I am in my ocean again.
You pushed me or I threw myself in
 at the sight of you,
 at the quake of you running through my boards.
A sunny day and a light breeze
 dancing upon the waves
 enchant me and make it hard to see —
well, them or your eyes.
I don’t mind loosing ground;
I wade or fathom, now:
your ocean or mine?
I invite you in.
Either I would hold my breath to explore your depths
 or would you provide some oxygen?

Tyrant

Holy brothers,
you escort your sandcastles’ beauty
and gracefully cast it into the river.
I imagine relinquishing likewise:
why is it a crummy kingdom I uphold?

Soggy Os

I ate honey Os
until a voice bade me
attend to something.
I returned
to deliciously soggy Os;

I wait
for such soggy deliciousness
to recur.

Polish

Exposed to the numinous
 the hero ventures forth
 steeped in life
to return a warrior
 with the pearl
 exposed to the numinous