when there's no words

when there's no words left
    your mind's adrift
exhaustion threatens
    better rest easy
shut off the world
    questions left unaddressed
may sunlight flit through high leaves
    quirk any fancies
and grounded shadows
    cease to fall across
eyes blinking with tiny dust flecks afloat
    comes happy surrender
void of inquiry
        settles on breast
nothing enabled exists

hey hey

Hey hey     ize a sick ol man

     ain no use to pout n frown

whan ize daid to frum ize cum

   then hey hey tiz ho nonny none

ho nonny none      whan ize feelin sore

     hurtin bad n wurse in store

taint az if ize young no more

     hey hey tiz whoz t' care

hey nonny no wotz up soonz down

     skinny az rope an wun end gone

cheeks sucked in an teeth undun

     then hey ize fettle as a skeleton

hey di ho meanz summatz up

     sky is fallin vexed wi snow

summerz went n autumn flew

     and hey tiz next t stars cum thru

whan hey hey me toes turn up

     t'aint mort o' matter whar ize dug

spent me gains on booze n fun

     herez t hey ho n hey nonny none

wid hey ho     then upend me mug

feb mmxiv

Can i be what i am

Can i be what i am
an old man
and relinquish
the weight of the world

neither here nor there
station stars themselves?
so with this perplexed dodderer
insisting he is what he was

bent age has its niche
not in line of fire
'cept nodding off
snug by cosy chimney corner
and hearth's reward

yeah     haha     damn your clichéd
quote from minor poet
who with six good men and true
was lowered out of this question
which seeks with verse erratic
to square armchair with dump of
clogging white wet gleaming teeming
whad y know wintry snow
through benefit of window's charity

clarity belongs as i do
between neither nor of argy-bargy
feet up neglecting felt duty
household ministrations
recline holding comfort of pen
dabbing at blank paper
to no resolution
beside the point
to hell with agitating
vexed brow

sup your tea     lad
as snow goes
so do you

mmxiii