Inventory Where You’ve Been: Haiku

No inventory
of where you’ve been, what you’ve done?
You’ll soon go nowhere.

We’re So Connected, We’re Not: Lament

Instead of scenic views and observations,

we watch reels.

Instead of conversations:

“Look at this.”

Instead of asking and learning:

“Google it.”

No wonder we’re so disconnected

from each other:

We’re too connected

to our devices.

But at least with GPS

men can get directions

without asking anyone.

When some young ‘un yells /
“Ok, Boomer!” at me, I’ll/
call out: “Ageism!”

A writer friend, Mimi Allin, posted this on Facebook:
“why not now?”

to which I responded:

Why not now? does not

need to be asked if it has

already been done.

When you get older/
you might ask: “Where’s Donovan’s/
Hurdy-Gurdy Man?”

(Here’s the song. I JUST learned Jimmy Page (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin) played guitar on this!)

If face masks can’t stop
the stench of six smokes, how can
they stop viruses?

How do you compete/
in life’s game when Big Brother/
keeps changing the rules?

If we think people/
are throwing us under the /
bus, we should ask them.

It doesn’t matter/
who’s in power. They all do/
good and bad. Seek good.
—Post-election, pre-inauguration wisdom from the Old Woman of the Woods

Though that black pill is/
hard and bitter to swallow, /
I must have more faith.