deceptive major league baseball

deceptive major league baseball
where managers wear players' uniforms
where Met-town P.A's blare their song: Duda, Duda
while on the Han River teeming with nature
a turtle midstream sticks out its neck
a sparrow like an arrow darts to third
we are all out when the game is over
with stray dogs running home

the popcorn is free at this ballpark
outside the Dong-Shan diamond
with uniforms as white as in Citi Field
kids wondering how such a big mistake
like adults spelling "city" wrong 
could have gone unnoticed in the rush
parents buying over-priced hot dogs 
taking selfies proud they were there

they will not smell any freshly cut grass
while waiting for the exit in extra-charge garage
but i am all smiles in my neighborhood
on a beach chair alongside my buddy
hearing the players hooting and stamping 
no electric scoreboard to dazzle
simply a river than River Avenue running by
our grand slam home run is the blue blue sky

10-14-15

as the cell door snaps shut on another friendship

as the cell door snaps shut on another friendship
with the lunatic behind bars
why do i feel like
i am his trap
being free to roam
while he is lost forever more

without looking back i can see
he is one less soul to comfort
no sympathy had he
nor my worthy ideals did he feel
yet family for me seems to mean
more than a birth's proximity

as aunts do their dances
and uncles buckle if per chances
i am free in Han River's vicinity
with blue sky breezes enveloping me
egrets gliding incessantly
and the warm sun glowing incandescently

through ribbons of roads and highways bind me
no mad driver there has yet to find me
as i sit on this bench of wood unwinding
from a lunatic's headlights blinding
unraveling the messes
of Maya's grindings

10-14-15 

be fundamentally here and now

be fundamentally here and now
as time goes by.
mourn John Lennon's shooting
another day.
meteor showers come around each year
stars remain out of reach, dear
so do not preach or try to teach
while you are here
just be here now

October 2015