Compensation
Sitting on the porch. I can’t walk without a cane. Watch my thoughts take flight.
Choice
Two politicians. One wise but frail, One stout but crazy.
Siesta
Now the work is done. Two cats come out of hiding, Find a patch of sun.
Summerhill
Here I am tended by angels of patient grace as I mend my ways. Sleep is a lover Who wants to take me away. I’m not finished yet. Climbing summer hill, we all move slowly. Perhaps there will be birds. Fell down summer hill. There were no birds, and I came too late for supper.
D-Day
Eighty years ago The Allies stormed ashore To dash the Nazi dream of global conquest down. Today another D who thinks Hitler was right And has no use for Jews Aspires to be the Tsar Of these United States By teaming up with Putin. Don’s finally gone too far With his subversive rootin’. He thinks