10 Year Reunion

Just here to make an appearance

Forgot how you all are so dense

Fake smiles, cheap glances, delayed advances

Insincere hi’s, taking turns telling lies

Look at me, look at me, see how I’ve matured

Hear about what I’ve endured

Condescending- just pretending that I care

About your past ten years out where?

Shifting positions

Trying to use my inhibitions

Fidgety limbs

A million distracting whims

I don’t want to be here with you

But its obviously the polite thing to do

Its an uncomfortable situation

But I accomplished my mission

Now I gotta find a way out

I still gotta make my rounds

A million others try to catch my sight

One by one I get through the night

Ode to the Ocean

Southern California’s southern summer beaches

Coastlines lined with luminescent sunlight rays

Illuminating the capacious coast of California

Basking on the beach’s brae the waves beckon me in

I sit up, shuffle to the sea, and take a short swim

The tepid waters I tread are far from tranquil

But I keep treading still

The private, peopleless Pacific beach becomes

More alluring because it’s abandoned, arcane, and all mine

Seagulls circle and scope the scintillating cyanic sea

Searching for fish or for any food for that matter

But they fly off finding nothing to their avail

Feeling stress free and fully relaxed

I swim ashore and take a short nap

Basking in the incandescent beams of the midday sun

Dreaming of the days when I was young