s-poem36

          
                                             
 After Bar Closing                    
                                         
                                           
Two nights ago                  
a famous couple              
entered the lobby;              
and just as they were about        
to walk out the doors,              
                           
the woman whined "It's raining";
and turning towards me,
asked me to please make it stop.
Raising my hands,                  
I addressed the rain.              
                                   
The following night              
this same couple                
passed through again,                
and the woman thanked me           
for stopping the rain.                
                                   
Stymied for a moment,                 
I at last responded:              
"It took me awhile,                
but I did it!"           
We laughed a little.                       
                                  
(Wish I                     
            really                        
                     could
stop the rain                 
                          .)                     
                                     
                                    
                                       
                   1988/01/24        
                                          
                                          
                                         
                                          
                                           
                                              
sm008                                 
                                   
post 1014                                     
                                           

s-poem35

                                        
Scatterings                                 
                                              
                                             
                                             
 Pavan                             
                                             
                                           
So long as                           
           words exist                  
and humans                     
           who use them                 
there will be those           
                    who enter them          
as a spelunker                        
               enters a cave,          
an astronomer                     
              new space,                  
a piano tuner                       
              each key's sound,          
who in effect will                  
                   live in them                
and both sustain                     
                 and be sustained by         
each as it is                       
              and as they shape it,          
who write them;                        
                and, in the patterns       
they divine,                    
             change our lives.          
                                       
                                          
                                             
                      1988/12/18-19
   
                                             
                                             
                                           
                                           
                                             
                                             
sm007                                       
                                         
post 1013                                       
                                         

sl36-Dang

                                                      
                                                     
Don't hang up!
Don't hang up!         
                            
Make that phone          
stop      ring-   ing!           
                                     
                                 
(instrumental interlude)
                                 
                                   
Don't hang up!               
Don't hang up!                     
                             
Make that phone                 
stop      ring-   ing!           
                                 
                                 
(repeat instrumental interlude   
and/or add or change to          
a new instrumental closing)







          

                                     
sm006              
                  
post 1012