Life is simple 
at least for 
me cup of 
coffee clean sheets 
a hot shower 
and a wink
nod and kiss 
all else is 
just extra like 
those things heaped
onto hotdogs and 
hamburgers and ice 
cream turning them 
into silly extravagance 
give me simple 
easy pure joy 

Best to forget 
than to follow 
for both paths 
and rivers flow
not from where 
they had come 
but only to
where they’re going 

Sometimes it’s best 
to let go 
to set free
better to unhitch
and unhook than
break for anything 
ever once broken 
isn’t going to 
be whole again 

No word not 
so much as
a peep crickets 
and rusty hinges
beg for more 
attention bills to
pay do too
but you you
just disappear like 
the gift never 
received like that 
summer beach novel 
romance just like 
that you do
maybe to the 
bottom of an 
empty bottle or 
bag of weed
or something more 
nefarious like kidnapping 
or witness protection 
but likely it’s 
just your angst
and your conviction 
that your madness 
is finally showing 
best to go 

And this now 
nights last little 
bit of twilight 
when sleepy things 
ever do sleep 
and other things 
slowly do awaken 
that life it
seems to me 
goes from peace 
to a chaos 
a change from 
dark to light 
much like I
imagine one does 
when passing over 
the threshold from 
life to death