SLACKER

are we to apply ourselves
with laser focus
or drift though life
lacking aim and purpose?

i'm not sure it matters.
i choose the latter.

ILLEGIBLE

my sons rise Monday
mornings creaky with complaints --
school's cold comfort
registering with the chill
of illegible potential.

(photo by Gemini)

DUMB WAITERS

loss and more loss,
the matter of everyone
who mattered
rejoining the ethers, the rest
of us dumb waiters
conveying empty
thoughts and prayers.