Punch the clock
All-night
Unload
On the dock
Eat cans of beans and spam
Drink beer in the can
Trailer has a roof leak
Clogged kitchen sink
Lost truck to repo man
Old lady gone two years back
Left behind her empty cigarette pack
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Summer
Heat
Rain
Cutting
Bamboo
Endless
Supply
Building material
From
Tropical garden
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Soaked in sweat
Scorching
September
Sun
Burns
Impurities
Out
Of
My
Body
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7PM- midnight
Every night
Reclusive
Hollywood actress
Crochets
Helping
Her
Forget
Past
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Morning
Feeling
Blue
Strolled
Outside
Took a long view
At
Laughing
Buddha
Now alright
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Cusco
Peru
Old Hand
Tomato
Seller
Stuffs
Bills
In her bra
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Years go by
Watching
Old Man Palm’s
Beard
Grow
Topical garden
Teaches
Patience
Let life flow
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Mid-fifties
Red cheeks
&
Nose
Dermatologist said:
“Rosacea
Take antibiotic pills”
I said:
“NO”
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Heavy summer rain
Backyard
Under
Veranda
Smoking pipe filled with cherry chocolate tobacco
Drinking Dr Pepper & coconut rum
Feet soaking in warm water & Epson salt
Watching
Giant
Columbian
Guadau Angustifolia
Bamboo
Grow
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Do not try this today
Different time
Different upbringing
70’s Fort Lauderdale-Miami drug scene
Father
Raised during Great Depression
World War II
Served under General Patton
Marching
Helping
Liberate
Europe
He loved his boy
One day
He put a hatchet on the kitchen table
Told his teenage son
“If you ever touch drugs I will chop your hands off”
I have never used illegal drugs in my life
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Jericoacoara
Mid-morning
Small wood boats
Arrive
Fishermen
Haul
Baskets
Full of lagosta
Onto the beach
Bargaining with restaurateurs
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Climbing
Top of fig leaf
Lizard
Looks around
Resembling
King
Tropical garden
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Standing at corner gas station
Across from railroad tracks
Wearing tank top and blue jeans
Waiting
To be chosen
For
Day labor job
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Canoa Quebrada
Proud
Teenage boy
Tossed his net
Into the sea
Catching
Camarao
To bring home for family
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She
Gossips
Complains
Like
Old
Woman
Washing
Clothes
In the river
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Immersed in tropical garden habitat
Wearing my straw hat
Slowly
Spreading
Fertilizer around plants
While light summer rain falls
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Extra-large hot pot of water
Rice stick noodles
Soy Sauce
Chili Paste
Ice cold beers
Reading
Edgar Allan Poe’s
842 pages
Complete Tales & Poems
Not in a race
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Damoen Saduak
Floating
Market
Locals
Tourists
Buy & Sell
Meet & Greet
Holding firm to tradition
Against
March
Of
BIG BOX Stores
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Decades of experience
Steady hands
Chinese
Acupuncturist
Inserted
Needles
With
Quick
Precision
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Yucatan Peninsula
Mexico
Lying in hammock
Cigarette hanging from mouth
Soles of feet badly cracked
The fisherman
Mumbled
To his dog
Stop
Licking
Bottle of tequila
On dirt ground
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Dwarf Buddha Belly Bamboo
Grows
Slow
Unique texture
Canvas that is homegrown
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Fort Lauderdale
Las Olas Bridge
Small cove
West side
Intracoastal Waterway
After-school
The young boy
Sitting on seawall
Watching
Anchored sailboats
Dreaming
Of
Pirates
Life at sea
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Relaxing
Aware
Great White Heron
Stops
For refreshing dip
In shallow water
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All day in the hot fields
Long ride
From back of truck
The man
Tossed
Bunches of bananas
To his partner
Standing on the ground
While the wholesaler
Counted
Dictated
Price to pay
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Weathered
Terracotta pot
Half full of rainwater
Miniature birdbath
Frogs splash
Mosquito eggs hatch
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Wake-Up
Check online live Atlantic Ocean beach webcam
Surf calm
Sun bright
Everything just right
Make a quick bite
Hop on my bike
Ride to beach
Skin tan and tight
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2 p.m.
Fort Lauderdale Beach
Drinking
Pink lemonade
Sitting
Under large umbrella
Watching
Heavy rain come down
Parade of tourists
Do a runner
Twenty minutes later
Sunshine
Alone
Beach now my own
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Cambodia
Angkor
Barefoot
Young monk
Wrapped
In orange robe
Walking
Quietly
While
Peddlers
Loudly
Hawk
Souvenirs
To
Tourists
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Last hurricane
Avocado tree
Broken
Halfway point
Slowly
Strangled
By
Aggressive
Unforgiving
Vines
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Just before sunset
Swinging
Slowly
Back and Forth
On
Cedar Wood Swing
Sipping
Chamomile tea
bit of honey
Observing
Birds’ last feeding
Soon
I go to sleep
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Now mid-fifties
Trying
To clean up eating habits
Considerably
Breakfast
Fresh Squeezed orange juice
Oatmeal
Topped
With
Chips of almonds
Shredded coconut
Wheat Germ
Blueberries
Wife says
“Relax
When you shave
You look mid-forties”
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August night
Tropical garden
Soft
Easterly
Atlantic Ocean breeze
Lighting small candles
Surrounding
Black marble Buddha
I begin to meditate
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Sunday
Afternoon
Hot charcoal briquettes
Sprinkled with Jack Daniel’s Whiskey barrel smoking chips
A couple of filet mignons
Wrapped with thick maple bacon strips
Ice cold Heineken beer
Romantic
Simple
Pleasures
We hold dear
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Praia
Copacabana
Rio
She said “Bon Dia”
Nighttime dancing & caipirinhas
Short time motel
Kisses & “tchau”
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Carrying plastic bags
Full of groceries
The pregnant mother
Slowly walked up the long stairway
While her two other young children
Followed closely behind
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Digging deep into the sidewalk trash can, the shabby dressed man found a copy of The Wall Street Journal.
Stepping onto the city bus, he sat down on one of the front seats and proceeded to read the newspaper, like he was an executive, on the way to a high-powered job.
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Late afternoon
Large
Green
Iguana
Crawling
Across
Polished Japanese black stones
Stops
Sniffs
Dead frog’s bones
Again starts moving its feet
Looking for plant treats
Climbs up Golden Hawaiian bamboo
Another creature that occupies the Hermit Poet’s tropical garden zoo
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Valley Of The Kings
Walking down into King Tut’s Tomb
Sign reads NO FLASH PHOTOS
Guard whispers into our ears
“Baksheesh
Baksheesh
No one else is here”
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Trimming
Leggy
Hibiscus tree
Two black butterflies
Fluttering
Between
Red Flowers, green leaves and me
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