zerothehero

you are we and we
are i am we and we are
you are i and i

zerothehero

the mystic sees a
hand and a not-hand and says
let us all join hands

zerothehero

i'm not this body
but this body is me or
at least part of me

zerothehero

i believe that the
collective unconscious is
biological

our traumas could be
the traumas of ancestors
born ptsd

epigenetics
we are our environments
and our heritage

Elseware

One of those nights rears
It's boa constrictor's head
Ate the kitchen whole

Elseware

It gives me heartburn
It makes my waistline bulge out
I look like Grandma

Elseware

Yummy up those carbs
Salty almonds by handfuls
My pants are too tight

Elseware

I have a tremor
Scaring the hell out of me
Increased appetite

Psych drug side effects
I hope. Feel better all right
But is it worth it?

Think of that dark hole
I was down there for so long
Can I live with this?

This fat and twitching?
Or should it be the lowland
It is some trade off

Gilmer

I had a tremor
From my meds--I was alarmed!
It faded in time.

zerothehero

after surgery
i hope to me med-free and
plan to stay that way

Gilmer

Will you need some more
Surgery this year, Zero?
I hope all goes well.

zerothehero

surgery likely
but more tests first to make sure
surgery will help

one cause can be fixed
if it's the other cause i'm
in for a long haul

Elseware

My fingers are crossed
So are toes, legs and arms
Want you well, Zero!

Elseware

It's rodeo time
Biggest weekend of the year
I used to get drunk

Hooting, hollering
Now it's different you see
In those high heeled boots

Now I watch the show
No beer in the hot sun
And don't act the fool

Drunk or hungover
I must have looked like a hag
The whole weekend long.

zerothehero

i know the feeling
drinking to feel normal and
fight brown bottle flu

zerothehero

yell hell you college
boys don't know nuthin' 'bout no
serious drinkin'

Carpathia

I sold a monkey
but that dang thing came back home
screeching in my tree

There's no room for it
it ransacks my house and then
bites me on the butt

I raised it from birth
cutest little guy, but mean
unpredictable

Carpathia

The monkey's asleep
outside, straddling a limb
of a dead pear tree

The new owner tried
zapping the creature's belly;
poor monkey, he ran!

Or do monkeys swing?
Can monkeys swim I wonder....
In nightmares they fly.

Carpathia

Monkey Chronicles
a book newly penned by moi
don't look for it soon

I'll shred it up first
mix it in with the compost
heaved into a mound

It's outside, out back
the garden that never was
pretty in my head

Gilmer

Life is fun sometimes.
I can be so frivolous!
Takes me by surprise.

I've been nuts all day.
Cannot get it off my mind--
What I could have said!

Never passed my lips.
I know when to shut my mouth!
Live another day!