close to the edge

Mein kampf synonymous as a blooper

Writer of these words,

a former Lower Providence inhabitant,

who dwelled within darkest depths
of Dante Alighieri's inferno

for most of his outlandish, impish,

and devilish growing up years

witnessed microscopic scrimmage,
where spermatozoan with most forcefulness
muscled itself handedly,

magnificently, and splendidly
envision unicellular olympic competition,

yours truly swimmingly

begot during the heat

of parents being passionately fruitful

courtesy diploid erogenous frisson
between my then searingly
robust virile father and fecund mother

~ late March/early April 1958
ushered seminal moment

post ova fertilization realization
courtesy male gamete

penetrating zona pellucida
a glycoprotein layer surrounding the oocyte

triggering cell bait multip...

Me very late mum, a funereal day...

courtesy latitudinarian, nonestablishmentarian,
sexagenarian, and Unitarian son
and modest mastermind maven maverick.

Another anniversary of her death occurs
upon advent of
May fourth two thousand and five,
not quite seventy years since her birth
November thirteenth nineteen thirty five,
nor fifty years

a married bride at age nineteen,
cuz back in dem days,
an unmarried woman
at twenty five would be
written off as a spinster.

Way back before

this baby boomer waz astute

countless decades before

aye became long in the tooth,

and also prior tomb ma mouth

sporting dentures to boot

fond memories rush

linkedin to moody blues

more than so far back

envisioning illusory wind blown steppes

(wait...this visage belongs to thine

...

Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...

Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union
aimed at the destruction
of the Ukrainian nation,
the 1932–1933 genocide in Ukraine.

The present doth bear witness
to repeated assaults upon

scapegoated innocent people.
 

Russian soldiers in general

and Vladimir Putin in particular

perpetuate outright injustice

against Ukrainian population.

Impossible mission to comprehend

the mindset of belligerent, egotistical,

indignant, NeoNazi, tsarist
self anointed totalitarian zealot.

Gross violation of human rights

blatantly carried out

courtesy diabolical genocidal horror

directly linkedin to Kremlin

official residence of president

Where art thou unknown spellcaster?

If in fact such a female and/or male exists
an insufferable existence clamors for surcease
against riptide of ineradicable anguish.

Living hand to mouth
for majority of mein kampf
(elle ex vee orbitz
roam'n around the nearest star)
punctuated with disequilibrium,
a comma date ting me
with penury and perdition.

Mental health issues aplenty
wrought courtesy congenital characteristics
manifestation of nasality
(thank submucous cleft palate)
linkedin with body dysmorphic disorder,
(whereat skinny legs

veritable spindleshanks of mine -
easily mistakenly

belong to generic flamingo)
laughably mismatched

and abhorred by yours truly,
a rather diminutive sexagenarian,
(okay, I stand tall)

at approximately seventy inches,
and weigh about
one hundred and forty five pounds
c...

Baseless incriminations heaped upon head of missus...

courtesy evil ferocious wraithlike grimace

Acrimonious scurrilous words
flew out the mouth
of vicious nasty shortish brute
leaving yours truly
as a key witness dumbfounded.

Outrageous spluttering claims
of stolen parcels
plus ransacked jewelry
totaling to the tune
of countless Benjamins
(hundred dollar bills)
viciously lobbed at dear wife of mine
as iterated in a previously written poem.

Camera phone thrust forward
(analogous to pointing a gun)
the miscreant recorded images
of stunned spouse,
and vehicular license plate,
which automobile property of yours truly.

Though Will-o'-the-wisp
of hashtagged wicked witch
(at the most, she stands five feet tall
and weighs all
of one hundred pounds),
nevertheless said sylphlike

slender as a reed human specimen

exh...

On being emotionally bankrupt

Sentient beings distraught
psyche rent asunder
courtesy false accusations
heated words exchanged like gunfire
pox upon the house of Deborah Hunter,
a vicious vindictive
girlish looking septuagenarian woman
buzzfeeding unfounded conspiracy
that the missus steals packages
ever since we moved here
at Highland Manor Apartments

force core and seven years ago
July first two thousand and seventeen
thee wife accused
unfounded rumor circulated,
she brought in snakes
courtesy whom I hashtag snaggletooth
blind as a bat
mistook large make believe
as voracious very hungry,
albeit friendly stuffed caterpillars,

nevertheless possessing

an insatiable appetite
for rumor mongers

especially for bony thin

older bonnie lass

or similar facsimile thereof
such as a small number of ten...

Fraught as an extremely socially anxious younger person...

hashtagged introvertedness trademark
silently exorcised, ostracized, and vilified
Impossible mission to resuscitate...
a forsaken promising
(even short lived) friendship
regardless of expressed gender

exhibited by other persons from yesteryear.

When trying to jump/kick start
lapsed meaningful interpersonal connections
from much earlier in my life
absence of a spark to kindle
once upon a time
valuable linkedin treasured bond
bereft of dynamism.

Folly entertained courtesy yours truly
bafflingly, desperately, and futilely
grasped elusive chimera
sabotaging rare occasion,
when fate smiled benignly,
I botched, damned, forfeited...
overarching golden opportunity
to experience sustained
positive rapport with compatible
lass or lad to accompany me
thru travails or buzzfeeding
a "lost"...

Idyllic reverie during break of day

May today bring unbridled bliss

delivered courtesy sunshine kissed
giving Midas a run for his money.
 

When the last trace of night

evaporates analogous to milky hue,

whereat a dreamy state
pervades thy being from tropical delight

as approach of Dawn

highlights morning landscape Gaia drew

ah, a paradise
in pristine majestic light

arced, bathed, chiseled displayed

described, elongated, fingered gilt

heraldic imagery joyfully

kindling luminosity

markedly novel picture
quintessentially resplendent

sedating this ubiquitous voyager
waking xing vision

yawning zealot acquiesces
bounteous chimerical dalliance

betwixt Goddess delivering break of day

against defeated quotidian

celestial vault, where Mithras dethroned

the capriciously f...

April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa

The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and file of entities constituting spiritus mundi.
 

Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul

of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given to my late father
buoyed into the great beyond
united with spirit
of mine late mother Harriet,
whose passing well nigh nineteen
orbitz of the earth around the sun.

Elysian fields embraced dada's soul

which rocketed into aerospace

(courtesy General Electric satellite)

just a tadpole more than three

earth orbitz and a half years ago,
when venerated, loved,
and celebrated then nonagenarian
on par with jumping frog
of calaveras county,
(whose captor disguised
as toad tilly grim reaper)

went a courtin for fresh corpse,

Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism

Psyche wracked with agony
impossible mission to extricate lovely bones
they wanna remain permanently abed.

I chiefly function to amass knowledge
courtesy assiduously, habitually,
and judiciously reading
an eclectic assortment of written material.

Yours truly woke
with ambition, disposition,
inclination, and predilection
to glean from an assortment
of books esoteric learning
since... birth, but particularly
when experiencing emerging adulthood
about two score years ago.

Feeble attempt crafting poetry
whereat gobbledygook doth trot -
oven chilly cooked confusion eliciting
faint thanks a lot
unbeknownst this tasteless,
senseless, rhymeless... lettered
Rorschach test tease I jot
interpretation, viz hitting
analogously like amorphous melted ingot
watch yourself...

d's lines ...