Heatwave

Record highs

Even iguanas hide

I watch a lizard crawl along the patio

Not sure if he will make it to the other side

Dry bird trays

I need to fill them with water

I’m worn out

Breakers trip

Too much of an electricity load

Missus leaning on kitchen counter

She wipes sweat from her forehead

Heatwave

Record highs

No place to hide

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he is a different ant

instead of carrying a load

following in a straight line

he wandered off alone

now

difficult staying alive

but

no regrets

saying goodbye

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old worn paperback book

falling apart

I carefully patch together

we are close friends forever

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I

sit

watch

listen

to heavy rainfall

next day

sun reappears

work on tan

sadness

slips away

through

fingers on my hands

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the world changed

days

become

weeks

sometimes

 month or two

the Hermit Poet

turned his back

works his garden

meditating

living

in

his

sinking

decomposing

shack

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sitting on beach towel

sipping lemonade

oh-so slow

no place to go

wind begins to blow

gigantic cloud now blocks sun

I welcome break from heat

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Sitting on my beach chair

Who the hell needs a career?

Catching rays

Reading philosophy books all day

I’m not a frustrated big shot

With an empty fridge

 But has kitchen granite counter tops

No

I live in a sixty-four year old three room shack

Concrete Block Structure

Flat Roof

Survived multiple hurricane attacks

Sharing space with

Reptiles

Rodents

Termites

And

A gigantic organic vegetable garden out back

Love my Sony Walkman

Forget digital sound

Will die a cassette man

 Over forty years

Bar-B-Que

1-2 times per week

Colonoscopy just came back all clear

Thirteen years ago stopped cutting my hair

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Nothing left to hold on to

Packed my backpack

Maybe find something new

NORTH

SOUTH

EAST

WEST

Does it matter which way?

I roam the highways

Thumb up

Catch a lift

FREEDOM is the gift

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All 500 square feet

Sometimes

I think

Shack too large

Should move

Close to the clouds 

One room hut will do

I dream

Taking sips of cool drops of dew

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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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Extinction

STOP

listen to the warning

dwindling compassion

obliteration of planet

What is our future?

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worn out hiking boots

I just keep moving along

soaking wet but strong

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walking

stopping

the

 exhausted

warrior

turned around

gazed

at his foot prints

then tossed his weapon

into the snow

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looking

at her paintings

in the gallery

she

remembered

 young girl

on the way to school

learning from street graffiti

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Standing

Top of hill

Screaming

“I’m in control”

No one can hear you

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cadavers 

rise above ground

circle around

elevate

The One

who

will

chip

chip

chip

carving

bit

bit

bit

unlocking the crypt 

behold

flame again lit

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