Poetry
(Composed While Listening to Gypsy Jazz in Downtown Vancouver)
body built
to break down
programmed to
fail but some
thing inside
still feels like
forever eternal
motion always
at rest body
doing its best
moving forward
through world
and time part
machine and
part will
soul sits
contented
at the center
of all knowing
nothing at all
about when or
if or would or
might or now
or then or
after or
until
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Volume 2
Issue 2
September 2026 pp. 19
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Get yourself if you can
to a place where
everything matters
or nothing does
Take the train of destiny
or the next bus that passes
thru featureless landscapes
brimming with symbols
Follow the winding path
vanishing before you
to a secret location
known to one and all
Go right away while
you still have the chance
although to leave later
would do just as well
When at last you arrive
make sure to keep moving
for there will be nothing
you’ll need to take in
But be certain you don’t
let yourself miss a thing
or forget why you came
to wherever you are
Then leave it behind
as quick as you can
and begin to pretend
you were never there
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Volume 2
Issue 2
September 2026 pp. 20
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Think on this now the tide is always turning
never still no more than those surging waves
it rules regulates restrains yet far inland away
from clamorous swells this rising and falling
incessant as time we forget about the baptism
of surf breaking over us purifying each moment
anew stripping our souls clean of decay debris
Bury me I pray when the time arrives there
on the shoreline or better still strew my ashes
across the turbulent ocean as it gathers up its
garments and makes for dry land or best of all
plunge me deep in the element out of which
all life emerged so whatever remains of what I
once was advances recedes forever caressing or
kissing the edge of this earth I once inhabited
night after day after night the endless rollers
delivering the news that though I seem to have
vanished from this world I have instead become
one tiny untraceable portion of swirling sea and
sand and sky on this ceaselessly spinning planet
a speck in and of the churning cosmos an enduring
aspect of the flux spirit energy movement chaos
of which our universe every bit of it is composed.
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