On Becoming a Citizen of the United States:

I realize now The ideas and ideals That make up the United States And that I pledged allegiance to, Exist now Only in my heart And in my history book.

Darwin

A man loses his family in a high speed accident, No tragedy here. A woman gets raped in a brothel, No tragedy here. A baby has scissors shoved into its skull by a doctor, No tragedy here. Science declares, It's just matter in motion.

She Smokes The Cigarette of Futility

She counts the trains Going by outside her window Like the minutes of her life And the love which Walked out her door So many times before. She smokes the cigarette of futility And wets her pillow with regret Waiting in the darkness For a man she will never see again. ........... Watched a movie …

Insomnia – Lu Yu

Even when I fall asleep early, My nights are long and full of bitterness. Tonight, tortured with insomnia, Memories of the past flood back Until they have exhausted me. Alone in the house beside a smokey lamp, I rub my heavy eyelids And idly turn the pages of my notebook. Again and again I scratch …

Like a Primitive Man

The rain comes down. Torrential curtains beat across the water Where I float, In water warmed by the days sun, And the rain stings my face. The sky spits fire across the night And the thunder sets all things on edge. Do the birds and squirrels Look out from the darkness And wonder what madness …