My Heart Will Go On

Near, far, wherever you are

I believe that the heart does go on
Once more, you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

- Celine Dion

https://youtu.be/F2RnxZnubCM?si=bQFmqv72qRGnNBGl

Peter Rabbit

My apologies that our beagle 

caught your sibling or cousin.

I did my best to give it 

a respectful burial.

And I really didn't mean

to chase you out of the bushes.

How was my lawnmower to know

you were hiding in there?

While I know it is not original,

I've decided to call you Peter.

I prefer that to Paul. 

Stayin' Alive

 Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother

You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive

- Bee Gees

Like a rolling stone

 Once upon a time you dressed so fine

Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People call say 'beware doll, you're bound to fall'
You thought they were all kidding you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hanging out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal

How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone

- Bob Dylan

A.M. Pacific

The morning ocean

startled by the infant sun

rests under a blanket 

of a million silver coins 

Elsewhere enraged

she tosses native fishing boats

like popcorn.

Note:

Just after the April 30 fall of Saigon and in the first week of May 1975, on board the USS Parsons somewhere in the Pacific near Okinawa.

Fast Car

"You got a fast car

I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we can make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Any place is better
Starting from zero, got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
Me, myself, I got nothing to prove..."

- Tracy Chapman

https://youtu.be/AIOAlaACuv4?si=reNpI0u4FUSXUSWA

Are You?

 There is a borderline I touch.

I don't know when I touch it.

It is not as if I feel when I touch it.

I don't;  I don't think I do; do I?

I just touch it.

We all touch it.

This borderline we touch touches all of us ,

elusively, intermittently.

It starts at a point.

It stops at a point.

Am I touching it?

  

- April 1976, in port, Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan 

Where is the love

Where is the love? (Where is the love?)

Where is the love? (Where is our love?)
Where is the love?

Where is the love you said you'd give to me
Soon as you were free?
Will it ever be?
Where is the love?

- Roberta Flack & Danny Hathaway

I miss her voice on the radio.

https://youtu.be/ZcHPNUN-U8E?si=FTF48RobAwXEyRIC

Pointless maybe

Forgive the intrusion

but words are how I express 

me.

Mostly written words.

Attempting to be not too verbose,

preferring to be succinct.

Brevity is a virtue.

And these words?

Likely inconsequential.

Pointless maybe, but I hope not.

Just wanted to let you know,

thinking of you.

Werewolves of London

 I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain
He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook's
Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein

Ah-hoo, werewolves of London
Ah-hoo

- Warren Zevon