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Elementary

Elementary

by | Jan 20, 2023 | Uncategorized

Inspiration:
No doubt something absurd, like pondering the physics of weight gain.
 
Medium:
Pigmented ink pen and colored pencils.
 
Elementary
Which particle am I most like
If you split an atom in three?
 
Electrons are always negative-
that’s not the world I see.
 
Nor like a proton am I,
with unceasing positivity.
 
If neither plus nor minus,
what else could I be? 
 
Neutrons have the most mass-
Yep, that’s me!

Two Week

Two Week

by | Jan 18, 2023 | Uncategorized

Inspiration:
My struggle between loving to see the sun rise and my desire for sleep. Sleep wins most of the time, I’m definitely two week!
 
Medium:
Pigmented ink pen and colored pencils.
 
Two Week
If you count the sunrises you could have had, 
And divide by those you’ve seen,
It would be really very sad
If it’s more than, say, fifteen.
 
For fourteen daybreaks you’ll have missed
For every one you won.
Fourteen dawns you could have kissed
Had you been awake to see the sun.

Ant Hill

Ant Hill

by | Jan 16, 2023 | Uncategorized

Inspiration:
My favorite pass-time, switching syllables around in my head to twist words into funthing sum, and realizing that “physicist” twisted is very close to “Sisyphus”, or maybe it was vice versa.
 
Medium:
Pigmented ink pen and colored pencils.
 
Ant Hill
If Sisyphus were a physicist
He’d’ve thought about the motion
Of the rock he pushed up that hill
Like endless waves of the ocean.
 
In fact if he’d just played mini golf
He’d’ve known that at the top
A hole must there first be dug
For the ball to go kerplop.

Fly

Fly

by | Jan 13, 2023 | Uncategorized

Inspiration:
The sound of a fly hitting the same window over and over interrupting my work on the same type of project I’ve done over and over.
 
Medium:
Pigmented ink pen and colored pencils.
 
Fly
I saw a fly dead
from banging its head 
    upon my window pane.
And I thought, how blind,
lacking foresight of mind,
    and continued to type away.
 
But in a moment I thought,
as my spirit was caught
    on the branch of an epiphany tree,
“Will I do the same, 
over and over again?
    No, I’ll be smarter than he!”
 
“I won’t slave til I’m dead,
I’ll fly away instead!”
    So I opened the window glass,
and jumped off the ledge
to fly over the edge,
    But I landed on my big fat… trampoline.

The Journal

The Journal

by | Jan 11, 2023 | Uncategorized

Inspiration:
Never enough money, always too much to do, but a good, worn-out life with my family.
 
Medium:
Pigmented ink pen and colored pencils.
 
The Journal
The Safe is half empty,
Brief Case half full,
but the Journal is brimming
    from life that’s a’ spinning
    with wife and kids, 
    well lived, 
worn through, never dull.