Take a bow

Let me take a bow

I want the tips of my hair to touch the ground

In your honor

You don’t require

Allow me to celebrate

All the benevolence within you

Throw some fireworks into the air

On a cold April day

Chills you may experience

But how could one compare

I stand tall to call

You one of a kind

To sit calmly and deny

Would only be a way of a fool’s mind

Today is rolled out for you, smile

Don’t stop, create and continue

May it never end, your patience

And bravery alike

I look to the sun and to the moon

Thereafter today has gone by

And you have seen both

Finding what’s important

Your one and only true heart

Knowing your steps

Will lead you on and here on out

May you never stop.

For Brian K. celebrating his bday

April 3, 2006

Smoky

Smokey shades of you appear in the daylight

They are welcoming and still

I know not of you or into you

Who you are or may be is as unclear

As the day’s after today agenda

Soldier of your wicked mind

You dare to deviate from a thrill

Recalling your own fleeting will

Soaking your elbows in your past

Lifting your prose into the future

I do heart your stories and

Shameless act of random inappropriate jokes

Which speak high in fantasy, torture and violence

Even if I may not see it they are rich in fortune

Might you be the boy that pushed

The hot dog stand down the subway stairs?

No need for lavish or the beautiful

Only the eyes see

These truths are forbidden in the tower of the victorious

You remain without a staple

Without a trace of alteration of any kind


3.27.06