2020-06-15

Learning, Knowing, Forgetting Learning



A funny thing is learning
Increasing understanding
And forgetting It was learned
Instantly becoming
Part of what
You've always known
At least that is the feeling
To the strings
That are your brain
Synapses connecting
As if they 
Have always been
Remembering the learning
But not that
It was learned

2020-06-01

In Defense of Defenestration as a Favorite Word




You all may call me widderschynnes

To choose defenestration.

A smorgasbord of better words

In your vocabulation,

But when some poor unfort'nate soul

Is from a window thrown,

You'll call upon my word of choice

And have to eat your own.

A Poet's Guide to the Philosophy of Lawnmowing

        Mowing the lawn is such a chore. It makes my body tired and sore. Why do we persist in insisting so That grass can't be allowed ...