Beep beep. Honk honk. Radio tunes blasting.

Cars zigzagging. The Commute long lasting.

Head throbbing. Need aspirin. Where is it?

Can’t reach it? Where did that car come from? Hit

the brake. Fanny pack hard to unzip. Gasp.

Knee hold wheel. That blasted cap hard to grasp....

Winsome willows beckon the sweet spring breeze,

Balmy wind brings winter’s scorn to dust freeze.

At down’s break daisies yawn against green hue,

Cool passions shimmer as shivers seize when wind blew....

As I sat in my ivory tower

Counting down each and every hour

My long flowing blond hair was curtailed.

Singing tra la la at times ‘til staled.

I was thinking about outside world.

Busy on iPhone eyebrows unfurled.

I thought that with all my games I play;

“Domino’s only a call away!”...

The morning commute is a drag.

Harry. Expressway has red flag.

Joe, there’s a traffic jam ahead.

I think they’re rushing in a med.

Joe, I think the artery’s clogged.

Harry, how much time have you logged.

There is bumper to bumper in

express lane. Too much congestion.

Harry, we should have taken tube.

Hey, don’t be such a small town rube.

I’ve a special delivery

To the brain once way is free....

Somewhere in these walls lies a beating heart

Hidden in this concrete mosaic. That’s smart,

Who’s that knocking on the wall? Leave alone.

For creaks the old bones that here moan and groan.

Some door into my parlor in darkness

Where creature malevolent is amiss....

The sneering sun hid from what maybe a folly.

Dressed in jeans mud stained, from the stick Hank neared the dolly,

Where huckster Harry harried his hustle Unnerved

by the guffaws and heckles by a crowd unswerved.

Cards bent in a frenzied razzle dazzle that mar

The odds of where that jagged crowned queen would be scar

The hopes of masses whose dumb luck was to guess wrong.

The flurry and panache dr...

Twinkling fairies picking berries .

Elves tipsy at the pub with some peris.

Brownies borrowing sugar from neighbors.

Trolls patrolling canals where naiad stirs.

Banshees wonder of brownies if giant;

Thinking if they’re mortal and suppliant.

Fractured tale of pranks that had bewildered

That befuddle denizens as thought absurd....

Trapped behind walls of brown brick besieged by Covid,

Ralph pallid from a long exile filled yearning hid.

Frozen meals remains filled bin with he in t-shirt

As the tv blared in stagnant refrain did blurt.

Yellowed carton under door slot filled with odd mail

Zoom call confessions to dear ones as tether trail.

News alert flashed reprised a Green Acres rerun.

Like a ravished vamp reviled at the braz...

A jewel in the mist of a jungle; a paradox

Of virtue stood forth. A gated unfettered Fort Knox.

For no matter what size or girth, each person is given rebirth as it were that to honor the Wiz.

Duty bound to tell no lie passed three they are bred

For at that hour of untruth said, each redone. Dread.

Each one kneaded; cries unheeded. Form remolded.

From a mixture of this and that, scene enfolded.

Li...

As I lie pail on my queen sized bed with fatigue,

I think if colonel had bucket list with intrigue.

With a wing and a prayer I keep abreast of things.

What a pail comparison to think what it brings.

If settler of Wild West past wore bucket on head,,

Would Indians think him pailface as I’m in bed.

A bucket to milk cow or am I milking joke.

Pail imitations that lead my own musings broke....