Aloha! I’m bummed/
I wasn’t the one chosen/
to escape frozen.

New poets lack the confidence
that comes from experience.
When you first start
everything makes you wince.
but when you practice getting it out there,
you find you just don’t care
as much.
You’re just glad you can touch
your creative core,
because it lets you share more.

“Thank U 4 the diversion”,
U said,
“from being alone
and lonely.
“Isn’t that
what single people r?”

As I left yer doorstep,
I thot:
“U have the power
2 change that.”

1500 poems, prose/
and haiku./
20 percent of them rose,/
inspired by you. /
How do you create/
the great /
muse that you do?

Sometimes I call you/
just so I can hear your voice/
mail and remember.

OR
Sometimes I call you/
so I can hear your voice mail/
and remember woo.

I wrote you haiku/
and sent a photo of you!/
What more do you want?

The patheticness/
of how many women I’ve/
asked, overwhelms me.

“How do you travel/
so much?” a friend asked. Answer?/
Make reservations!
— Every year, a friend of mine takes off for several weeks and goes sailing in the Caribbean. People ask him all the time: “How do you travel like that?” His answer is very simple (and that’s what the haiku is about). He told me: “When I get home from my trip, before I do anything else, the FIRST thing I do is make plans and reservations for the next year’s trip.”