Denial

I am not a robot

But sometimes I wish I were. 

I wouldn’t need to sleep

Or shave my facial fur.

Ursine

The lair of a bear 

Is a where to beware.

Hard to Describe

Words which once spilled out of my brain 

Onto a page, where they sat, very plain, 

Are played with by actors, and rapidly change 

From familiar... to charmingly strange.

Helpful Advice

Told my doc I had insomnia,

The worst I’d ever had!

He said don’t lose any sleep over it,

It doesn’t sound that bad.

4D

Mathematicians sometimes speak 

Of 4-D Euclidean space

But nowhere in Euclid’s Greek

Can we actually find any mention 

Or diagrammatic trace

Of figures in four dimensions.

In Michigan

The wind at the beach 

Blew sand in my teeth. 

Which was sort of good - I've been meaning 

To bring them in for a cleaning.

Father’s Day

 My father wrote humorous verse

And I got that family curse.

Good Deed

My good deed for the week: told young family with luggage where

They could find the elevator to the Blue Line so they could get to O’Hare.

Traces

I'm related, 23-and-me thinks,
To Niall of the Nine Hostages.
But I'm holding out for genetic links
To Saul of the Seven Sausages.

Long Days, Need More

Chicago summers are too short. 

I’m suing to lengthen them in court. 

Can it be done? Let me count the ways…

August will now have 32 days!

Concerto

The orchestra has the numbers 

To generate the thunder,

But defiance is exciting 

So the soloist brings the lightning.

Violence in the Country

 There's an article today in the Wall Street Journal about violent crime having spiked in rural America — during "the pandemic". Which makes sense to me. Suicides were up. Drug overdoses were up. I knew about those. Those are already forms of doing violence to yourself, in my book. So to me it's intuitive that violence in general would climb.

I put "the pandemic" in quotes because it wasn't just the disease, it was the response to it, including the overhyping and the lockdowns, that hurt people emotionally and spiritually.

I think a lot of people's brains
Lost control under the strain.

Key Bored

If you make lots of keyboard errors,

You may have to face the reality

That you have inherited 

A Type O personality!

Glass

Gravel full of glittering broken glass,

Seems like it should be pretty in its way,

But somehow my eyes would rather take a pass -

I prefer looking at gravel that’s dull and gray.

Stable

Apparently Mars lacks 

Continental drift. 

Lacking continents, in fact, 

It kind of gets short shrift.

Octal

If there were eight days a week

What would we call the new day?

And would it be for working 

Or would it be for play?

The Saga

 What began as a ten minute adventure 

For two wacky augmented cats,

Became more stand-alone episodes

About their outer space spats,

And that was welded together 

In a stunning story arc

To create the Kitties Saga:

Funny, and light, and dark.