Happy and Free

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090705

JUST CAN’T REFRAIN

Why can’t I?

Let me tell you why—
I just can’t get a break.

- Can’t spot a fake.
- Can’t stay awake.
- Can’t keep a friend.
- Can’t underspend.
- Can’t hold on tight.
- Can’t win a fight.

I just can’t do things right.


UNCOMPLICATED (for Abraham)

If you’re happy,
you’re enlightened:
stay that way.


SELF-HELP

I hurt.
I lack.
I disapprove.
I fear.

Phooey!
Change focus.
Be happy.
Accept no substitutes.


FREE, FLOATING

The more my health
and wealth are gone,
the less I base
my happiness on.


RAINY DAY SPENDINGS

I love paid vacations—
feeling wild and free—
even this vacation,
being paid by me.


ARRIVAL

Am I happy?
Yes, oh yes!
That is my
complete success.


090704

FAITHFUL AND PROUD

I pledge allegiance to my Muse—
my trusted higher power
who is the flag that I salute
and, of whatever state I’m in,
motto, song, and flower.


FIREWORKS

Freedom unearned
can be celebrated
but not enjoyed.


POLITICAL DIVIDE

“Don’t try to help!
Nothing will help that you can do.”

“Forgive me then;
for being proud of you.”


WE, THE PEOPLE

How can we be “enemy”?
We seek each other’s liberty!


090703

UNDER HEAVEN

Down and out?
Feeling pain?

Life brings loss, but with it, gain:
sacred blessings that sustain
like winter sun and summer rain.


BEAT NIX

Rhymes, rhymes, rhymes.
Oh so loved—
in other tymes!


090702

LAUNCH OF “LIFT-OFF”

We and the cats
have gone into
conniption fits.

Finches are tiny;
imagine their eggs!
Our hatchling utterly
begs description—
pink grape;
eensie stubs
for wings and legs.


WHERE’S MY VOTE?

If I were Iranian,
I wonder what I’d do?
Perhaps I’d meekly raise my voice—
and be deprived of further choice.


090701

HEART-MATES (for Marilyn)

Tomorrow I will see my friend.
Then we’ll separate again.

Apart, then together;
together, then apart:
the push and pull of friendship,
like blood, flows through the heart.


CAREFUL!

Don’t put too much on your plate—
things are about to escalate!


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