is that duck swimming in the pool?

dive at your peril
escape seventy degree
Hawaii five O

toes feeling like ice
Canadians swimming
tropical twenty winds

chilling bad to bone
jumping flash handstand “too cold”
wet heart felt shrieking

had to get close
husband and wife visor
Furman University

cannot believe eyes
even her ninety year old
mother had gone there

one never sees this
dave barry being last guy
purple comedy

blond actress SNL
Brooke Shields was said to have
thought about going

uncamouflaged bright
green lizard red opening
black pool rail cheez it

The Only Thing For
Vegetarian French Fry Restaurant
is open

Uno counting cards
wishing it was pizza
eggplant stacked pizza

sorry Pondering Mind
meant mozzarella parmesan
wrong olive

Bitter Ben doesn’t care
for sun dried tomatoes
likes pepperoni

now for the landing
stop talking to me there’s
a mallard in the pool

swimming sideways lap
“oh he does that every day
around this same time”

hurriedly takes off
over dune straight for the sea
was that my pierre

bird or superman
kissing hand that feeds him
no itinerary

and now pitch dark
12:10 am a cannon blasts
over and over

six very loud bangs
I don’t ever want to know
if that was gun fire

Turnaround And You’re Jim Cramer

~
“oh not so it really is
turnaround tuesday
pretty impressive”

“there was not a memo
for a bake off with nardella
get memo”

“The bears are in a
cave in a den and it’s
claustrophobic right now”

“it’s like we don’t want
tuna with good taste we want
tuna that tastes good”
–

Josh on CNBC

“market behaving
perfectly rationally
sector by sector”

“Turn Around” Lyrics

“where are you going
my little one turn around
and you’re a young man”

_

first year in d.c.

told him he wasn’t
gary condit and i wasn’t
chandra levy

this was the same year . no one knew what had happened to chandra & they were blaming condit. there was a story about some guy running around attacking women jogging in rock creek parkway, while listening to music. that’s what chandra was doing. but our stupid laws let murderers run around too long.. the newspaper said this guy attacked two women but he didn’t kill them.apparently, that means you have to do the exact same thing every single time or you aren’t a suspect. i knew it was him from the beginning. it wasn’t that hard to figure out.it took years….

boyfriend from ” two jews and a cowboy cafe ” , said one day , he was signing fake names , when he came to visit me & my answer was apparently a haiku & we laughed , but it wasn’t funny. when he said that i thought , at least there are cameras everywhere in this building. my cab driver / policeman had a talk with him, the first day, but i was from s.c. & he was from boston & all i could think of was gary condit , when he said that.i didn’t want to be paranoid. no one had mentioned the murdering criminal in the park yet. maybe he thought his real name was too famous.

baking dozen thirteen

“when you’re fourteen
the world is a very confusing
and sexy place”

Ray Barone to his mother
`

“i’m a bad father
like ernest hemingway or
some other writer”

Peter Griffin / Family Guy
`

“george always says that
one woman like me is enough
for any man”

Gracie
`

“just so the ice cream
doesn’t go to waste i think
you better eat it”

Ward Cleaver to Beaver
`

“you’re all a bunch of
pigs i smell bacon this whole
place reeks of bacon”

“and guess what I’m
going kosher cause jerkey don’t
dig on swine wo oo”

Brooklyn 9-9
`

“if i’m gonna be
a donor i’d rather give
it to the red cross”

mosquitoes / Petticoat Junction
`

“when i go to heaven
will i be anatomically
correct”

Raising Hope
`

“you need to take a
step closer to the world
we are living in ”

About A Boy
`

“I’ve looked into the
eyes of traitors before casey
you’re no traitor”

Person Of Interest
`

“look my contempt is
not with the U S it’s always
been with Russia”

The Blacklist
`

“soon you’ll grow into
your grandfather’s shoes
you can be dangerous too”

Maude
`

“if you’re ever in
Japan look me up we’ll take
a bath together”
`

Bob Newhart

don’t believe the hype

people would rather
believe lies than honesty
pyramid schemes

Sociopaths run the world
and they always will
unless we stop them

looking for targets
tv was part of his name
dog in airline seat

saying don’t watch tv
one thousand people like
i say watch tv

he followed me
no reason to follow me
not liking anything

really the first clue
why would you go to tv
follow everyone

my name is errin
spelling that means i watch tv
you silly bloak

shall i change my name
motivate me to give you
money and power

i will give you pech
another joke of father
yiddish for nothing

i could be wrong
motivation money success
but i don’t think so

have you ever heard
any good coming from the word
motivation

hitler david koresh
waco mark sanford
governor of S C

president bush caused
everyone i knew to lose
half of their money

including myself
i was there and i watched
losing a lot more

listening lobbyist
attorneys writing speeches
in jacuzzi

know nothing politics
watching guy on tv
like sociopath

before elected
i turned out to be correct
seldom occurring

he didn’t lose sleep
beheading of daniel pearl
anything after

slouching on podium
we don’t negotiate
relaxed cucumber

i’m still horrified
pain and fear of blades closing in
heartless leader

the word beheading
gives me chills and hurts my heart
obsessive nightmare

you didn’t even try
to save that poor man
much less rest of country

With Twelve You Get Gracie

“there are two things that
make a marriage successful
man and a woman”

Gracie
`

“i never make up
my mind to go anywhere
until i am there”

Gracie
`

“she came as a witch
on a broomstick and she tried
to ride side saddle”

Gracie
`
“the recipe said
to separate two eggs
those were her very words”

Mrs. Sommers to her psychiatrist about Gracie

so gracie asked blanch
to take one egg to her house
she kept the other
`

mrs. sommers
cracking up because of all
the things that gracie says

he did not believe
gracie was a real person
not a sharp crayon

“trained observer
i can’t imagine anyone
more normal than you”

Psychiatrist to Gracie
`

“hellou hellew”

seven am heilou
fourth day four hour cat nap
it’s avon calling

are you kidding me
avon calling myrtle beach
vacation condos

where’s security
no girl scout cookies but this
my tranquil birthday

no one lets me sleep
repeating hellou hellew
it’s avon calling

i open my eyes
to find edward scissorhands
i was not amused

although i did laugh
because it had seemed so real
awake pudding proof

will i ever learn
keep channel on tv land
quiet mayberry

myrtle beach was in egypt land

Jazzy jellyfish
offering peppermint tea
twelve hours three days

driving to the beach
usual sixty seconds
we wave at pierre

all the ducks crossing
throw before passover crumbs
they wanted matzo

little yamulkahs
disturbing their passover
seder with turtle

palm trees covering
shade their long flowing tables
fluffy matzo balls

no one understands
seagull asking four questions
foreign dialect

must be from jersey
“why is this night different
from all other nights”

the sea doesn’t part
no more parting since pharoah
only hurricanes

should sea divide
weather channel will be there to
tell you about this

not the wine talking
pesticide mold smoke plaster
famine no sorrow

jim cramer ticker tape toppings

“if everyone holds hands
Gilead does it because
Kumbaya stock”

“Tesla CEO
he wants world domination
I want you to die”

“was once offered
a job at a major teaching
university”

“If You Can Believe That”
betting it was Harvard
where you went to school

–

Tyler Mathisen

“should you sell your house
your adolescent children
we’ll answer all that”

–

very hard listening
they are throwing haiku
catching left and right

–

Flowers