out on the breakers a brain bobs up and down

what is needed
Everything we need is in our pockets
   we’re ready to get started
   even the clocks know what time it is  Â
why worry about tomorrow or yesterday  Â
new things will happen
   and each one of them is a fresh start   Â
in life and in writing poems
   one is always starting over
    freshÂ
james lee jobeÂ
Just understand that birth and death itself is nirvana, and you will neither hate one as being birth and death nor cherish the other as being nirvana.
Eihei Dogen Zenji
he felt his brain floating in a vinegar seaÂ
Waves of vinegar pulled by the moon   pulledÂ
by hands beyond our ability to see
the sound of whales singing far below the surfaceÂ
and from the white shore the noise of gunfireÂ
bullets like a bonfire   bullets like moonlightÂ
bullets like windÂ
time is nothing  driftwood   empty shellsÂ
the tide is coming in and it is vinegar   not saltwaterÂ
out on the breakers a brain bobs up and downÂ
somewhere  somehow  another one of usÂ
has just let goÂ
james lee jobeÂ
The title is a line from Walter Pavlich's poem, 'Killing The Man Who Wanted To Die.' Walter left us far too young. He was a nice fella and a helluva poet. Now, many years later his wife is gone, too, Sandra McPherson. They are missed. -jlj

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